PART I GENERAL PROVISIONS
TITLE 3 – ABETMENT AND CONSPIRACY

Accessory before the Fact
24. Everyone who becomes an accessory before the fact to any felony, whether it is a felony at common law or by virtue of any written law for the time being in force, may be indicted, tried, convicted, and punished in all respects as if he were a principal felon.

25. Everyone who counsels, procures, or commands any other person to commit any felony, whether it is a felony at common law or by virtue of any written law for the time being in force, shall be guilty of felony, and may be indicted and convicted, either as an accessory before the fact to the principal felony together with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony, whether the principal felon has or has not been previously convicted, or is or is not amenable to justice, and may thereupon be punished in the same manner as any accessory before the fact to the same felony, if convicted as an accessory, may be punished.

Accessory after the Fact
26. Everyone who becomes an accessory after the fact to any felony, whether it is a felony at common law or by virtue of any written law for the time being in force, may be indicted and convicted, either as an accessory after the fact to the principal felony together with the principal felon or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony, whether the principal felon has or has not been previously convicted, or is or is not amenable to justice, and may thereupon be punished in the same manner as any accessory after the fact to the same felony, if convicted as an accessory, may be punished.

27. Every accessory after the fact to any felony (except where it is otherwise expressly enacted), whether the same is a felony at common law or by virtue of any written law for the time being in force, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.

Accessories generally
28. Any number of accessories at different times to any felony, and any number of receivers at different times of property stolen at one time, may be charged with substantive felonies in the same indictment and may be tried together, notwithstanding that the principal felon is not included in the same indictment or is or is not in custody or amenable to justice.

29. Where anyone becomes, within the Admiralty jurisdiction of the Court, an accessory to any felony cognizable by the Court, whether it is a felony at common law or by virtue of any written law for the time being in force, and whether the felony is committed within that jurisdiction or elsewhere, or is begun within that jurisdiction and completed elsewhere, or is begun elsewhere and completed within that jurisdiction, the offence of that person shall be felony, and in any indictment relating to the offence the venue in the margin shall be the same as if the offence had been committed in the county of Guyana in which it is tried, and it shall be averred to have been committed on the high seas:
Provided that nothing herein contained shall alter or affect any of the laws relating to the government of the Guyana Defence Force.

30. No one who has been once duly tried and acquitted or convicted either as an accessory before or after the fact, or for a substantive felony, under this Title shall be liable to be afterwards prosecuted for the same offence.

Abettor in Misdemeanour
31. Everyone who aids, abets, counsels, or procures the commission of any misdemeanour, whether it is a misdemeanour at common law or by virtue of any written law for the time being in force, may be indicted, tried, convicted, and punished in all respects as a principal offender.

Conspiracy
32. Everyone who conspires with any other person to prevent, by force and intimidation, the collection of any rates or taxes, the levying and collection of which is authorised by any written law for the time being in force, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.

33. Everyone who, wherever no express provision is made by this Act, or by any other written law for the time being in force, for the punishment thereof, conspires with any other person to commit any felony not punishable with imprisonment for seven years or more, or any misdemeanour, or to do anything in any part of the world which, if done in Guyana, would be a felony not punishable with imprisonment as aforesaid, or a misdemeanour, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable to imprisonment for three years.

34. Everyone who, in any case where no express provision is made by this Act, or by any other written law for the time being in force, for the punishment thereof, conspires with any other person to commit any felony punishable with imprisonment for seven years or more, or to do anything in any part of the world which, if done in Guyana, would be a felony punishable with imprisonment as aforesaid, shall be guilty of felony and liable to imprisonment for seven years.