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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.

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PARTIES TO THE COMMISSION OF OFFENCES

36. Accessory before the fact-

(1) A person is an accessory before the fact who, without becoming a party to any offence, knowingly helps any person to commit an offence.

(2) A person is an accessory before the fact in terms of subsection (1) despite the fact that the offence was committed in a manner different from that understood by that person.

(3) A person who is an accessory before the fact commits an offence of accessory before the fact and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years, if the maximum penalty for that offence is imprisonment for life, or in any other case is liable to not more than half the maximum punishment to which he or she would have been liable if he or she had committed that offence.

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PARTIES TO THE COMMISSION OF THE 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.


39. Attempt to commit or procure commission of offence-

(1) A person who attempts to commit any offence in respect of which no punishment for the attempt is expressly prescribed by this Act or by some other enactment is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years if the maximum penalty for that offence is imprisonment for life, and in any other case is liable to not more than half the maximum penalty to which he or she would have been liable if he or she had committed that offence.

(2) Everyone who is accessory after the fact to any crime punishable by imprisonment, being a crime in respect of which no express provision is made by this Act or by some other enactment for the punishment of an accessory after the fact, is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five (5) years if such maximum penalty is imprisonment for 10 years or more; and in any other case is liable to not more than half the maximum punishment to which he or she would have been liable if he or she had committed the crime.