Malta

Criminal Code

BOOK FIRST PENAL LAWS

PART I
OF PUNISHMENTS AND GENERAL RULES FOR THEIR APPLICATION, OF THE WILL AND AGE OF
THE OFFENDER, OF ATTEMPTED OFFENCE, OF ACCOMPLICES AND OF RECIDIVISTS

TITLE IV
OF ACCOMPLICES

47. Any person who -
(a) constrains another person by an external force which such other person could not resist, to commit an offence; or
(b) participates by any of the acts specified in article 42 in an offence committed by any other person who is according to law exempt from criminal responsibility,
shall himself be guilty of that offence as a principal offender.

Keywords

Commission through another person
Unique provision - modes of liability



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