CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE II - Interpretation and General Explanations

The Standard Tests and the Keywords

11.- (3) If an event is caused by the acts of several persons acting either jointly or independently, each of those persons who has intentionally or negligently contributed to cause the event shall, subject to subsection (4), and to the provisions of Title IV with respect to abetment, be deemed to have caused the event, but any matter of exemption, justification, extenuation or aggravation which exists in the case of any one of those persons shall have effect in his case whether it exists or not in the case of any of the other persons.

CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE IV – Abetment and Conspiracy

20.-(1) Every person who-

(a) directly or indirectly instigates, commands, counsels, procures, solicits or in any manner purposely aids, facilitates, encourages or promotes the commission of any crime, whether by his act, presence or otherwise; or

(b) does any act for the purpose of aiding, facilitating, encouraging or promoting the commission of a crime by any other person, whether known or unknown, certain or uncertain, shall be guilty of abetting that crime and of abetting the other person in respect of that crime.

CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE IV – Abetment and Conspiracy

20.- (2) Every person who abets a crime shall, if the crime be actually committed in pursuance or during the continuance of the abetment, be deemed guilty of that crime.

(3) Every person who abets a crime shall, if the crime be not actually committed, be punishable as follows, that is to say-

(a) If the commission of the crime be prevented by reason only of accident, or of circumstances or events independent of the will of the abettor, the abettor shall, where the crime abetted was murder, be liable to imprisonment for life, or shall where the crime abetted was any crime other than murder, be punishable in the same manner as if the crime had been actually committed in pursuance of the abetment.

(b) In any other case the abettor shall, if the crime which he abetted was a felony, be deemed guilty of a felony, or shall, if such a crime was a misdemeanour, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour.

(4) Every person who abets a crime shall be punishable on indictment or summary conviction, according as he would be punishable for committing that crime.

BELIZE -EXTRADITION ACT

PART IV – Extradition (United States)

Article 2 - Extraditable Offenses

2. An offense shall also be an extraditable offense if it consists of an attempt or a conspiracy to commit, aiding or abetting, counseling or procuring the commission of, or being an accessory before or after the fact to, any offense described in paragraph 1.