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CRIMINAL CODE 1924 - SECT 6
Accessories after the fact: When wives and husbands not so
(1) A person who receives or assists another who is, to his knowledge,
guilty of a crime, in order to enable him to escape punishment, is said to
become an accessory after the fact to such crime.
(2) A married woman does not become an accessory after the fact to a
crime of which her husband is guilty, by receiving or assisting him in order
to enable him to escape punishment; nor by receiving or assisting, in her
husband's presence and by his authority, another person who is guilty of a
crime in the commission of which her husband has taken part, in order to
enable that other person to escape punishment; nor does a husband become
accessory after the fact to a crime of which his wife is guilty by receiving
or assisting her in order to enable her to escape punishment.
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