# The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, Article 59: Aiders and abettors


Without prejudice to any other enactment, a person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission by another person of a summary offence shall himself be guilty of that offence and may be tried and convicted (whether or not he is charged as a principal) either by a court having jurisdiction to try that other person or by a court having by virtue of his own offence jurisdiction to try him and may be tried either together with that other person or before or after that other person has been tried.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/1675/article/59 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-59
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