If you try to murder someone, even if you don’t succeed, you can be sent to prison. The law says that if you attempt to murder someone, you might go to jail for up to 14 years. This means that even if you don’t actually kill the person, but you tried to, you can still get in big trouble. The law takes attempts to murder very seriously, even if no one dies.
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View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM329322.
172: Punishment of murder, or
“If you murder someone, you could go to jail forever, but there are special rules about this.”
174: Counselling or attempting to procure murder, or
“Encouraging or trying to get someone else to kill a person, even if the killing doesn't happen, is against the law.”
Every one who attempts to commit murder is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years.
Repealed
