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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Where accomplice liability is concurrent or does not apply
This Part shall not affect the liability of any person⎯
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