Belize

Belize Criminal Code

CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE IV – Abetment and Conspiracy

20.- (2) Every person who abets a crime shall, if the crime be actually committed in pursuance or during the continuance of the abetment, be deemed guilty of that crime.

(3) Every person who abets a crime shall, if the crime be not actually committed, be punishable as follows, that is to say-

(a) If the commission of the crime be prevented by reason only of accident, or of circumstances or events independent of the will of the abettor, the abettor shall, where the crime abetted was murder, be liable to imprisonment for life, or shall where the crime abetted was any crime other than murder, be punishable in the same manner as if the crime had been actually committed in pursuance of the abetment.

(b) In any other case the abettor shall, if the crime which he abetted was a felony, be deemed guilty of a felony, or shall, if such a crime was a misdemeanour, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour.

(4) Every person who abets a crime shall be punishable on indictment or summary conviction, according as he would be punishable for committing that crime.

Keywords

Individual criminal responsibility
Abetting
Aiding
Assisting
Inducing
Ordering
Providing means
Soliciting



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