Section 35: Prohibition of abetment

1) No person shall abet another person to commit an offence.

2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), where a person instigates another person to commit an offence, the person is considered to have abetted.

3) The abettor shall be liable to the separate punishment, if any, provided for in this Act, and to the following punishment if such separate punishment is not so provided for:

(a) Where the offence is committed in pursuance of the abetment, the punishment imposable as if he or she had committed the offence,

(b) Where the offence is yet to be committed in pursuance of the abetment, one half of the punishment specified for such offence.

4) Where an offence is abetted but a different offence is committed by the abetted person, and that offence was committed under the influence of the instigation or was a probable consequence of the abetment, the abettor shall be liable to punishment as if he or she had committed such offence as well.