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13 Accessories after the fact (1) A person who receives or assists another who, to his knowledge, has committed an offence in order to enable him to escape prosecution becomes an accessory after the fact to the offence. (2) The rule of law under which a wife cannot be an accessory after the fact to an offence committed by her husband is abolished.

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