'Conspiracy' in document 'Samoa- Crimes Act 2013'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART V
PARTIES TO THE COMMISSION OF OFFENCES

38. Conspiracy to commit an offence-

(1) A person who conspires with any person to commit any offence, or to do or omit, in any part of the world, anything of which the doing or omitting in Samoa would be an offence, commits the crime of conspiracy to commit that offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven (7) years, if the maximum penalty for that offence exceeds seven (7) years, or in any other case is liable to the punishment as if he or she had committed that offence.

(2) The provisions of subsection (1) as to the penalty for conspiring to commit an offence do not apply where the punishment for the conspiracy is prescribed in any other enactment.

(3) Where under this section any one is charged with conspiring to do or omit anything anywhere outside Samoa, it is a defence to prove that the doing or omission of the act to which the conspiracy relates was not an offence under the law of the place where it was, or was to be, done or omitted.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 25
Individual criminal responsibility
3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(d) In any other way contributes to the commission or attempted commission of such a crime by a group of persons acting with a common purpose. Such contribution shall be intentional and shall either:
(i) Be made with the aim of furthering the criminal activity or criminal purpose of the group, where such activity or purpose involves the commission of a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; or
(ii) Be made in the knowledge of the intention of the group to commit the crime