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No. 14 of 1929. ACCESSORIES AND ABETTORS.
No. 10 of 1929, repealed by Law Revision Ordinance, 1939, Supp. Sched.
No. 11 of 1929, incorporated in No. 65 of 1911.
No. 12 of 1929, repealed by Law Revision Ordinance, 1939, Supp. Sched.
No. 13 of 1929, incorporated in No. 2 of 1865.
[Originally No. 14 of 1929.
Law Rev. Ord., 1939.]
Short title.
Accessory before the fact may be indicted, etc., as principal. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 94, s. 1.
Accessory before the fact may be indicted, etc., as such or as substantive felon. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 94, s. 2.
No. 14 of 1929.
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to accessories to and abettors of indictable offences.
[20th September, 1929.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Accessories and Abettors Ordinance, 1929.
Accessories before the fact.
2. Every person who becomes an accessory before the fact to any felony, whether the same is a felony at common law or by virtue of any Act or Ordinance, may be indicted, tried, convicted and punished in all respects as if he were a principal felon.
3. Every person who counsels, procures or commands any other person to commit any felony, whether the same is a felony at common law or by virtue of any Act or Ordinance, shall be guilty of felony and may be indicted and convicted either as an accessory before the fact to the principal felony, together with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony, whether the principal felon has or has not been previously convicted or is or is not amenable to justice, and may thereupon be punished in the same manner as any accessory before the fact to the same felony, if convicted as an accessory, punished.
* And see No. 41 of 1932, [Magistrates], s. 37.
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