Tanzania, United Republic of

Code of Criminal Law

PART I
GENERAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER V
PARTIES TO OFFENCES

22. Principal offenders

(1) When an offence is committed, each of the following persons is deemed to have taken part in committing the offence and to be guilty of the offence, and may be charged with actually committing namely—

(a) every person who actually does the act or makes the omission which constitutes the offence ;
(b) every person who does or omits to do any act for the purpose of enabling or aiding another person to commit the offence ;
(c) every person who aids or abets another person in committing the offence ;
(d) any person who counsels or procures any other person to commit the offence, in which case he may be charged either with committing the offence or with counselling or procuring its commission.

(2) A conviction of counselling or procuring the commission of an offence entails the same consequences in all respects as a conviction of committing the offence.

(3) A person who procures another to do or omit to do any act of such a nature that, if he had himself done the act or made the omission the act or omission would have constituted an offence on his part, commits an offence of the same kind and is liable to the same punishment as if he had himself done the act or the omission.

Keywords

Individual commission



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