Section 345 — Crimes Act 1900 (NSW)

Principals in the second degree—how tried and punished

Every principal in the second degree in any serious indictable offence shall be liable to the same punishment to which the person would have been liable had the person been the principal in the first degree.

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Related sections

s 343 — Certain common law offences not abolished
s 343A — Saving of other punishments
s 344A — Attempts
s 346 — Accessories before the fact—how tried and punished
s 347 — Accessories after the fact—how tried and punished
s 347A — Wife may be accessory after fact to husband’s felony

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