Protection from criminal responsibility for some ancillary activities
132 Protection from criminal responsibility for some ancillary activities
This section applies to an activity such as aiding and abetting the commission of an offence or of conspiring to commit an offence (an ancillary activity) for which a person may be criminally responsible because it involves an activity for which the other person would (but for section 128) be criminally responsible (the related controlled activity).
Despite any other Act or law, a person who engages in an ancillary activity that is an offence (whether or not that person is a participant in an authorised operation) is not criminally responsible for the offence if at the time the person engaged in the ancillary activity he or she believed the related controlled activity was being engaged in, or would be engaged in, by a participant in an authorised operation.
[Section 132 inserted: No. 78 of 2003 s. 17.]
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