Section 38Part 2 — Punishments
General punishment for offences
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38. (1) When, in this Act, no punishment is specially provided for any offence it is punishable with imprisonment for four years and with a fine.
Subject to this Act, where a person eighteen years of age or older is convicted of an offence under this Act or any other law and a person under the age of eighteen is the accomplice or an accessory after the fact of that person in the commission of that offence, the court may in its discretion impose a penalty which is twice the maximum prescribed for that offence, except where the penalty is life imprisonment.