Liabilities

Question 1

accessory after the fact

Answer 1

S71(1)
7yrs - life
5yrs - 10+yr
Half of max

Knowing any person to be party to an offence

Receives, comforts or assists that person, or

Tampers with or actively suppresses any evidence against him or her

In order to help him or her to escape after the arrest, or

In order to help him or her avoid arrest or conviction

Question 2

Receiving

Answer 2

S246(1)
$1000 + 7yrs
$500-$1000 1 year
Under $500 3mnths

Receives

Any property stolen, or

Any property obtained by any other imprisonable offence

Knowing that property to have been stolen or obtained by any other imprisonable offence, or

Being reckless as to whether or not the property had been stolen or so obtained

Question 3

Conspiracy

Answer 3

S310(1)
7yrs imprisonment (where offence exceeds 7yrs, or same as offence that was conspired) 

Conspires

With any person

To commit any offence, or

To do or omit, in any part of the world,

Anything of which the doing or omission in NZ would be an offence

Question 4

Money laundering

Answer 4

s 243(2)
7yrs imprisonment

In respect of any property that is the proceeds if any offence

Engages in a money laundering transaction

Knowing or believing that all or part of the property is the proceeds of an offence, or

Being reckless as to whether or not the property is the proceeds of an offence

Question 5

Perjury

Answer 5

S108(1)
7yrs imprisonment, or
14yrs for 3+yr offences

A witness

Making any assertion of any matter of fact, opinion, belief or knowledge

In any judicial proceeding

Forming part of that witness’s evidence on oath

Known by that witness to be false, and

Intended to mislead the tribunal

Question 6

Attempts

Answer 6

s 72(1)
10yrs for life offences, or half maximum punishment of offence

Everyone who

Having an intent to commit an offence

Does or omits an act for the purpose of accomplishing his object

Is guilty of an attempt to commit the offence intended

Whether in the circumstances it was possible to commit the offence or not

Question 7

Parties to

Answer 7

s 66(1)
10yrs - life, or
Half max

Everyone is a party to and guilty of an offence who

Actually commits the offence, or

Does or omits an act for the purpose of aiding any person to commit the offence, or

Abets any person in the commission of the offence, or

Incites, counsels, or procures any person to commit an offence