Commentary on Sections Part 2: Encouraging or Assisting Crime.Inchoate offences Section 45: Encouraging or assisting an offence believing it will be committed
147.This section creates a new offence of encouraging or assisting an offence believing it will be committed. The person commits the offence if he does an act capable of encouraging or assisting an offence and he believes both that the offence will be committed and that his act will encourage or assist its commission.