Part 2

Encouraging or assisting crime

Inchoate offences

Intentionally encouraging or assisting an offence
44
1
A person commits an offence if—
a
he does an act capable of encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence; and
b
he intends to encourage or assist its commission.
2
But he is not to be taken to have intended to encourage or assist the commission of an offence merely because such encouragement or assistance was a foreseeable consequence of his act.
Pt. 2 restricted by 2007 c. 19, s. 18(1A) (as inserted (1.10.2008) by Serious Crime Act 2007 (c. 27), ss. 62, 94(1) (with Sch. 13 para. 5); S.I. 2008/2504, art. 2(a))
S. 44 in force at 1.10.2008 by S.I. 2008/2504, art. 2(a)
Pt. 2 applied (with modifications) by 2003 c. 42, Sch. 4 para. 6(3) (as inserted (26.4.2013) by Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2013 (c. 7), ss. 3(5), 15(1))