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7. Whenever any act is committed by any person out- Accessories side the Colony which if committed within the Colony after the fact would be a felony, then every person, who within the to felony Colony does any act which would make him an accessory abroad. after the fact to such felony if it had been committed in the Colony, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance as an accessory after the fact to a felony com- mitted outside the Colony, and may be dealt with, tried and punished in the same manner as an accessory after the fact would be if the felony had been committed within the Colony.
ACCESSORIES GENERALLY.
8. Any number of accessories at different times to any Several felony, and any number of receivers at different times of accessories property stolen at one time, may be charged with substan- may be
included in tive felonies in the same indictment and may be tried
same indict- together, not withstanding that the principal felon is not ment. included in the same indictment or is not in custody or 24 & 25 amenable to justice.
Vict. c. 94, 8. 6.
9. Every person who in the Colony becomes an acces- Accessories sory to any felony either begun within the Colony and to felony completed outside the Colony, or begun outside the committed Colony and completed within the Colony, shall be guilty of partly within
and partly an offence against this Ordinance, and may be dealt with, without the tried, and punished in the same manner as he would be if Colony. the felony had been wholly committed within the Colony.
10. Every person who aids, abets, counsels, or procures Abettor in the commission of any misdemeanor, whether the same is misdemeanor a misdemeanor at common law or by virtue of any Act or may be Ordinance, shall be liable to be indicted, tried and punished indicted, etc., as a principal offender.
11. Every person who, in the Colony,-
(a) conspires with, or
(b) aids, abets, counsels or procures
any other person, whether such other person is within or outside the Colony, to commit any act outside the Colony which if committed within the Colony would be a felony, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance, and shall be liable to be dealt with, tried, and punished in the same manner as he would be if the act had been com- mitted within the Colony.
as principal offender.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 94, 8.8.
Conspiring
or aiding
to commit a crime abroad.
12. When any person shall, within the jurisdiction of Offences the Admiralty, become an accessory to any felony, whether within the
jurisdiction the same be a felony at commn law or by virtue of any of the Act or Ordinance, and whether such felony shall be com- Admiralty. mitted within that jurisdiction or elsewhere, or shall be 24 & 25 begun within that jurisdiction and completed elsewhere, or Vict. c. 94, shall be begun elsewhere and completed within that juris- 8. 9. diction, the offence of such person shall be a felony, and such felony shall be averred to have been committed on the High Seas.
Every person who thus becomes an accessory to such felony committed on the High Seas, shall be liable to be dealt with, tried and punished in the same manner as an accessory to the felony would be, if the felony had been committed within the Colony. Provided that nothing berein contained shall alter or affect any of the laws relating to the Government of His Majesty's Land or Naval Forces.
13. The Accessories and Abettors Ordinance, 1865, is Repeal of repealed.
Ordinance No. 3 of 1865.
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