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Crimes Act 1961

Crimes against the person - Murder, manslaughter, etc

174: Counselling or attempting to procure murder

You could also call this:

“Encouraging or trying to get someone else to kill a person, even if the killing doesn't happen, is against the law.”

If you encourage, advise, or try to get someone to kill another person in New Zealand, you can be punished. This is true even if the murder doesn’t actually happen. The law says you could go to prison for up to 10 years for doing this. Remember, this only applies when the planned murder is supposed to happen in New Zealand.

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View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM329325.

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Part 8 Crimes 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)