Penalties

Question 1

S173 – Attempted Murder – Crimes Act 1961

Answer 1

Everyone who attempts to commit murder is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years.

Question 2

S174 – Counselling or Attempting to Procure Murder – Crimes Act 1961

Answer 2

Everyone is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years who, incites, counsels or attempts to procure ANY PERSON to murder ANY OTHER PERSON IN NEW ZEALAND, when that murder is not in fact committed.

Question 3

s175 – Conspiracy to Murder – Crimes Act 1961

Answer 3

(1) Everyone is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years who conspires or agrees with any person to murder any other person, whether the murder is to take place in New Zealand or elsewhere.

(2) To murder includes to cause the death of any person OUT OF NEW ZEALAND, in circumstances that would amount to murder if the act were committed in New Zealand.

Question 4

S176 – Accessory after the fact to murder – Crimes Act 1961

Answer 4

Everyone is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years who is an accessory after the fact to murder.

Question 5

S154 CA 1961 - What is punishment for Abandoning a child under 6?

Answer 5

Everyone is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years who unlawfully abandons or exposes any child under the age of 6 years.

Question 6

S179 – Aiding and Abetting suicide – Crimes Act 1961

Answer 6

(1) Everyone is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years who
a. Incites, counsels or procures any person to commit suicide, IF THAT person commits or attempts to commit suicide as a consequence thereof;/
b. Aids or abets any person in the commission of suicide

Question 7

S181 – Concealing dead body of child

Answer 7

Everyone is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years who disposes of, the dead body of any child, in any manner, with intent to conceal the fact of its birth, whether the child died before, during or after birth.

The requirement that the act of disposal must be done with the intention of concealing the fact of birth will be satisfied if the BIRTH was known to some people but not others.

Thus, it will be ENOUGH that the intention was to conceal the birth from a particular individual.