Section 323Part 12 — Attempts and Conspiracies to Commit Crimes and Accessories After the Fact
Definition of accessories after the fact
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Where a person has committed an arrestable offence, a person who, knowing or believing that first-mentioned person to have committed the offence or some other arrestable offence, does without lawful authority or reasonable excuse any act with intent to impede that first-mentioned person's apprehension or prosecution, is said to become an accessory after the fact.
A person does not become an accessory after the fact to an offence which that person's spouse or civil partner has committed by receiving the spouse or civil partner or assisting the spouse or civil partner to escape punishment, or by receiving in the presence of the spouse or civil partner and by the spouse's or civil partner's authority another person who has committed an offence in the commission of which the spouse or civil partner has taken part, in order to enable that other person to escape punishment or avoid apprehension.
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accessory after the factarrestable offence