Liabilities & Definitions

Question 1

Conspiring to commit offence

Answer 1

Conspiring to commit as offence
S310(1) CA 61

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 New Zealand would be an offence

Question 2

Attempting to commit an offence

Answer 2

Attempting to commit an offence
S72 CA 61
(1)
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 3

Parties to an offence

Answer 3

Parties to an offence
S66 CA 61

(1) every one is a party to an offence who -
a) Actually commits the offence
B) Does or omits an act for the purpose of aiding any person to commit the offence or
C) abets any person in the commission of the offence
D) Incites, counsels, or procures any person to commit the offence

2) where 2 or more persons form a common intention to prosecute any unlawful purpose, and to assist each other therein, each of them is a party to every offence committed by any one of them in the prosecution of the common purpose if the commission of that offence was known to be a probable consequence of the prosecution of the common purpose

Question 4

Accessory After the fact

Answer 4

Accessory After the fact
S71(1) CA 61

Knowing
any person to have been a party to an offence,
Receives, comforts, assists that person, tampers with or actively suppresses any evidence against him,
In order to enable him to escape after arrest or to avoid arrest or conviction

Question 5

Perjury

Answer 5

Perjury
S108(1) CA 61

A witness making any

Assertion as to any matter of fact, opinion, belief or knowledge

In any judicial proceeding

Forming part of that witnesses evidence on oath

Known by that witness to be false, and

Intended to mislead the tribunal

Question 6

Receiving

Answer 6

Receiving
S246 (1)

Receives

Any property stolen or otherwise obtained by any other imprisonable offence

Knowing that property to have been stolen or so obtained
Or
Being reckless as to whether or not the property had been stolen or so obtained.

Question 7

Money Laundering

Answer 7

Money Laundering
S243 (2) CA 61

In respect of any property that is the proceeds of an 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