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.1.0.A.G. 439
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Funds. Chaft Ordre. requests appl. to introduction into Leg. bonsail.
M. Bushel
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This Bill carries the law further than that
which obtains in this country in that it makes it an
offence (a) to aid or be an accessory to a felony
committed in a foreign country, although the principal
felony cannot be tried in the Colony, and (b) to aid
or be an accessory to the commission of an act in a
foreign country which may not be a crime in that
country at all.
Supposing, for example, that this Bill was
to become law in the United States of America, and
supposing that whiskey drinking in America was a
felony, it would mean that if a gentleman in New York
wrote to a wine merchant in England and told him to
send Mr. A in London a case of whiskey for Christmas,
he would be guilty in New York of criminal offence.
Of course, it is easy to make nonsense of the Bill by
taking the United States as an illustration because
they happen to have created criminal offences which
are not criminal offences in other countries.
not know what is the position in Hong Kong, why this
Bill is necessary, or what particular circumstances
it is meant to meet, and I can find no information
upon those matters in the papers.
I do
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