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Section 98 Statutory offences: art and part and aiding and abettingI1

Scotland Not yet in force

(1)

The Sexual Offences Court may convict an accused person of a contravention of any enactment notwithstanding that the person was guilty of such contravention as art and part only.

(2)

For the purposes of the Sexual Offences Court, a person who aids, abets, counsels, procures or incites any other person to commit an offence against the provisions of any enactment commits an offence and is liable on conviction, unless the enactment otherwise requires, to the same punishment as if the person had committed the offence against the provisions of the enactment.

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I1

S. 98 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 116(2)