Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) Subject to any contrary intention in the Act creating the offence, where a simple offence is committed, each of the following persons is deemed to be a party to, and to be guilty of, the offence, and may be charged with actually committing it, namely:
(a) a person who actually commits the offence;
(b) a person who does any act or makes any omission for the purpose of enabling or aiding another person to commit the offence;
(c) a person who abets another person in committing the offence;
(d) a person who instigates another person to commit the offence.
(2) A person who instigates another person to do an act or make an omission of such a nature that, if he had himself done the act or made the omission, the act or omission would have constituted a simple offence on his part, is guilty of the same offence as if he had himself done the act or made the omission, and may be charged with himself committing the offence.
(3) A person who is alleged to have instigated, aided, or abetted the commission of a simple offence may be convicted upon a complaint charging him with having committed the offence, or upon a complaint charging him with having instigated, aided, or abetted, as the case may be, the commission thereof.