Criminal Code (Cap. 9)

Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 47

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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 exe mpt from crimina l responsibility, shall himself be guilty of that offence as a principal offender . Complicity in contraventions.

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