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

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART V
PARTIES TO THE COMMISSION OF OFFENCES

33. Parties to offences-

(1) (d) incites, counsels, or procures any person to commit the offence.

PART V
PARTIES TO THE COMMISSION OF OFFENCES

34. Party to crime outside Samoa-

(1) A person who, in Samoa, aids, incites, counsels or procures the doing or omission outside Samoa of any act which, if done in Samoa would be a crime is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding that prescribed for the crime, or seven (7) years, whichever is the less.

(2) Despite subsection (1), where the crime alleged in relation to subsection (1) is murder, the term of imprisonment shall be life.

(3) A person charged under this section is not liable to be convicted in any case where it is proved that the act or omission to which the charge relates was not an offence in the place where it was, or was to be, done or omitted.


35. Party to offences other than that intended -

A person who incites, counsels or procures another to be party to an offence is a party to every offence which that other commits in carrying into effect that which was incited, counselled or procured and which the person charged as a party pursuant to this section knew or ought to have known to be a likely consequence of that incitement counselling or procuring.

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:
(b) Orders, solicits or induces the commission of such a crime which in fact occurs or is attempted