If an offence is committed by any member of an unlawful assembly in prosecution of the common object of that assembly, or such as the members of that assembly knew to be likely to be committed in prosecution of that object, every person who, at the time of the committing of that offence, is a member of the same assembly, is guilty of that offence.
Section history
Section 149 — Every member of an unlawful assembly to be deemed guilty of any offence committed in prosecution of common object
As in force on 1 February 2008.
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- 30 March 1987 Enacted
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- 30 November 2008 Revised edition
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