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The Chemical Weapons (Overseas Territories) Order 2005
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Assisting or inducing weapons-related acts overseas
Assisting or inducing certain weapons-related acts overseas
50.—(1) A person who aids, abets, counsels or procures, or incites, a person who is not a United Kingdom person to do a relevant act outside the United Kingdom is guilty of an offence.
(2) For this purpose a relevant act is an act that, if done by a United Kingdom person, would contravene section 2 of the Chemical Weapons Act 1996 (offences relating to chemical weapons).
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(4) A person accused of an offence under this section in relation to a relevant act which would contravene section 2 of the Chemical Weapons Act 1996 may raise any defence which would be open to a person accused of the corresponding offence ancillary to an offence under that provision.
(5) A person accused of an offence under this section is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.
(6) This section applies to acts done outside the Territory, but only if they are done by a United Kingdom person.
(7) Nothing in this section prejudices any criminal liability existing apart from this section.
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