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 are principals and shall be punished as designated by the law for the offence.

Whoever causes another person to commit an offence, whether by employment, forcing, threatening, hiring, asking, or encouragement, or by any other way, is an abettor.

If the abetted has committed the offence, the abettor shall be punished as if being a principal. If the offence has not been committed, whether because the abetted refused to commit it or has not yet committed it or because of any other reason, the abettor shall merely be punished with one third of the punishment designated for the offence.

Whoever makes a publication or announcement to the general public encouraging them to commit an offence the punishment designated for which is [imprisonment?] not less than six months, shall be punished with one half of the punishment designated for the offence.

If an offence has been committed because of the publication or announcement according to the stipulations of paragraph 1, the person making the publication or announcement shall be punished as if being a principal.

Whoever by any means assists or facilitates another person in the commission of an offence,