Zimbabwe

Criminal Law (codification and reform) Act

CHAPTER XI
CRIMES AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

188 Conspiracy

(1) Any person who enters into an agreement with one or more other persons for the commission of a crime, whether in terms of this Code or any other enactment—
(a) intending by the agreement to bring about the commission of the crime; or
(b) realising that there is a real risk or possibility that the agreement may bring about the commission of the crime;
shall be guilty of conspiracy to commit the crime concerned.

(2) For an agreement to constitute a conspiracy—
(a) it shall not be necessary for the parties—
(i) to agree upon the time, manner and circumstances in which the crime which is the subject of the conspiracy is to be committed; or
(ii) to know the identity of every other party to the conspiracy;
(b) it shall be immaterial that—
(i) the crime which is the subject of the conspiracy is to be committed by one, both or all of the parties to the agreement; or
(ii) one or more of the parties to the conspiracy, other than the accused, did not know that the subject-matter of the agreement was the commission of a crime.

Keywords

Conspiracy



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