Section 18Part 1 — Preliminary
Principal offenders
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When an offence is committed, each of the following persons is deemed to have taken part in committing the offence and to have committed the offence, and may be charged with actually committing it, that is to say —
every person who actually does the act or makes the omission which constitutes the offence;
every person who does or omits to do any act for the purpose of enabling or aiding any other person to commit the offence;
every person who aids or abets another person in committing an offence; and
any person who counsels or procures any person to commit the offence.
In a case arising out of subsection (1)(d), the accused may be charged with themselves committing the offence or with counselling or procuring its commission.
A conviction of counselling or procuring the commission of an offence entails the same consequences in all respects as a conviction of committing the offence.
Any person who procures another to do or omit to do any act of such a nature that if that person had themselves done the act or made the omission the act or omission would have constituted an offence on that person's part commits an offence of the same kind and is liable to the same punishment, as if that person had themselves done the act or made the omission; and that person may be charged with themselves doing the act or making the omission.