5. Punishment for accomplices

Where any gun is used by any person in committing or in attempting to commit any offence or where an offence under section 4A has been committed by any person, each of the person’s accomplices present at the scene of the offence who may reasonably be presumed to have known that the person was carrying or had in the person’s possession or under the person’s control the gun, shall, unless the accomplice proves that he or she had taken all reasonable steps to prevent the use of the gun, be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be punished with death.