Criminal Law Code as at 1st March 2007 (a) renders wholly ineffective his or her previous incitement, conspiracy, authorisation or assistance; or (b) gives warning of the crime to a police officer or other person with authority to prevent the commission of the crime, in sufficient time to enable the police officer or other person to prevent its commission. 201 Accomplice liability for extra- territorial acts and crimes Where a crime is committed⎯ (a) inside Zimbabwe; or (b) outside Zimbabwe in the case of a crime constituted by extra-territorial acts or omissions; and any person does or omits to do anything outside Zimbabwe which, if done or omitted in Zimbabwe would render the person an accomplice to that crime, such person may be charged in Zimbabwe as an accomplice to that crime. 202 Punishment of accomplices Subject to this Code and any other enactment, a person who is convicted of a crime as an accomplice shall be liable to the same punishment to which he or she would be liable had he or she been an actual perpetrator of the crime concerned. 203 Presumptions, jurisdiction, powers and defences applicable to actual perpetrators applicable also to accomplices (1) Subject to this Part, any⎯ (a) presumption that applies; or (b) jurisdiction that may be exercised; or (c) award or order that may be made; or (d) power to enter, inspect, arrest, search, detain, seize or eject that may be exercised; or (e) power to take a deposit by way of a penalty that may be exercised; in relation to the actual perpetrator of any crime or suspected crime in terms of this Code or any other enactment, shall be equally applicable or capable of being exercised or made, as the case may be, in relation to an accomplice to the commission of the crime or suspected crime concerned. (2) Subject to this Code and any other enactment, a person charged as an accomplice may raise and rely on any defence which he or she could have raised and relied on if he or she had been charged as an actual perpetrator of the crime concerned, to the extent that the defence relates to or is based on any fact or circumstance which is an essential element of the crime as committed by both the actual perpetrator and an accomplice: Provided that a person charged as an accomplice shall be guilty of being an accomplice to a lesser crime where he or she is entitled to rely on a partial defence which would render a person charged with committing that particular crime guilty of the lesser crime. 204 Where accomplice liability is concurrent or does not apply This Part shall not affect the liability of any person⎯ - 115 -

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