📜 Official Text

A person abets an offence if they abet its commission, or the commission of an act that would be an offence if done by someone legally capable of committing it with the abettor's own intention/knowledge. Abetment of an illegal omission can be an offence even if the abettor wasn't personally bound to do that act. It's not necessary that the abetted act actually be committed, or that the abetted person share the abettor's guilty intent (or have any capacity for guilt at all) - the abetment of an abetment is also itself an offence, and conspiracy-based abetment doesn't require the abettor to personally coordinate with the actual perpetrator.