Section 10: Accessories after the fact

A person who receives or assists another who is, to his knowledge, guilty of an offence,
in order to enable him to escape punishment, is said to become an accessory after the
fact to the offence.
A wife does not become an accessory after the fact to an offence of which her husband
is guilty by receiving or assisting him in order to enable him to escape punishment; nor
by receiving or assisting, in her husband's presence and by his authority, another
person who is guilty of an offence in the commission of which her husband has taken
part, in order to enable that other person to escape punishment; nor does a husband
become accessory after the fact to an offence of which his wife is guilty by receiving or
assisting her in order to enable her to escape punishment.
In this section the terms "wife" and "husband" mean respectively the wife and
husband of a Christian marriage.
Chapter 3. Application of Criminal Law