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Crimes Act 1961

Crimes against the person - Murder, manslaughter, etc

174: Counselling or attempting to procure murder

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"Trying to get someone to commit murder is against the law"

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If you try to get someone to kill another person in New Zealand, you can get in trouble. You can go to prison for up to 10 years if you do this, even if the murder does not happen. This is against the law, and it is stated in the Crimes Act 1961.

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Part 8Crimes against the person
Murder, manslaughter, etc

174Counselling or attempting to procure murder

  1. Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years who incites, counsels, or attempts to procure any person to murder any other person in New Zealand, when that murder is not in fact committed.

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  • 1908 No 32 s 189(b)