Chapter 42

ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT.

393. Definition of accessories after the fact.

(1) A person who receives or assists another who is, to his or her knowledge, guilty of an offence, in order to enable him or her to escape punishment, becomes an accessory after the fact to the offence.

(2) A wife does not become an accessory after the fact to an offence of which her husband is guilty by receiving or assisting him in order to enable him to escape punishment; or by receiving or assisting, in her husband’s presence and by his authority, another person who is guilty of an offence in the commission of which her husband has taken part, in order to enable that other person to escape punishment; nor does a husband become an accessory after the fact to an offence of which his wife is guilty by receiving or assisting her in order to enable her to escape punishment.

394. Punishment of accessories after the fact to felonies.

Any person who, becomes an accessory after the fact to a felony commits a felony, and is liable, if no other punishment is provided, to imprisonment for three years.

395. Punishment of accessories after the fact to misdemeanours.

Any person who, becomes an accessory after the fact to a misdemeanour, is guilty of a misdemeanour