advice or providing any substance or article to enable that person to commit the crime shall be
liable to be charged as an accomplice to the crime.
(4) A court shall not take judicial notice of any practice that is said to be commonly
associated with witchcraft, but any person who, in the opinion of the court, is suitably
qualified to do so on account of his or her knowledge, shall be competent to give expert
evidence as to whether the practice that forms the subject of a charge under this section is a
practice that is commonly associated with witchcraft, whether generally or in the particular
area where the practice is alleged to have taken place.
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Indicating witches and wizards
(1) Subject to this section, any person who groundlessly or by the purported use of nonnatural means accuses another person of witchcraft shall be guilty of indicating a witch or
wizard and liable⎯
(a) in a case of any purported use of any non-natural means, to a fine not exceeding
level ten or imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years or both;
(b) in any other case, to a fine not exceeding level six or imprisonment for a period not
exceeding one year or both.
(2) For the avoidance of doubt it is declared that no crime is committed by a person who,
without the purported use of non-natural means and having reasonable grounds for suspecting
another person of committing an offence referred to in section ninety-eight, accuses that
person of committing that offence.
(3) It shall not be a defence to a contravention of subsection (1) involving the purported
use of any non-natural means for the person charged to prove that the person he or she
accused actually engaged in any practice commonly associated with witchcraft, but the court
may regard such circumstance as mitigatory when assessing the sentence to be imposed.
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Employing non-natural means to resolve crimes or delicts
(1) Any person who⎯
(a) by the purported use of non-natural means, intentionally indicates another person as
the perpetrator of a crime or delict; or
(b) in the purported investigation by non-natural means of any crime or delict, requires,
advises or incites another person to undergo any test or consume any substance;
shall be guilty of employing non-natural means to resolve a crime or delict and liable to a fine
not exceeding level ten or imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years or both.
(2) For the avoidance of doubt it is declared that any person who procures the services of
another person to do any act referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1) shall be liable
to be charged as an accomplice to the crime of employing non-natural means to resolve a
crime or delict.
(3) It shall not be a defence to a contravention of subparagraph (a) of subsection (1) for
the person charged to prove that the person he or she indicated actually perpetrated a crime or
delict, but the court may regard such circumstance as mitigatory when assessing the sentence
to be imposed.