CO129-511-21 Accessories and Abettors Ordinance 1928- Bill 13-9-1928 - 27-11-1928 — Page 18

No439

Sir,

HONGKONG.

AZOLIVE

COL. OFFIGLI

[15 OCT 1928

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

13th September, 1928.

18

?/11

In Andd 4

Dol

20 cmo

I have the honour to enclose for your

consideration a draft Ordinance entitled an Ordinance

to consolidate and amend the laws relating to accessories

to and abettors of indictable offences. The reasons for

this proposed legislation are given in the statement of

Objects and Reasons attached to the print.

2. The draft was referred to His Honour the

Chief Justice Sir Henry Gollan, Kt., C.3.3., who minuted

as follows:-

i. "I think it would be well to define "Act"

"as an Act of the Imperial Parliament.

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the se

ii. "Paragraphs 4 and 7 of the Bill

"clauses extend the Law of England and

'apparently would make punishable in Hong

"Kong a person there who was accessory

"before the fact to the cormission of an

"act in China which was a felony by the law

"of Hong Kong though not by the law of Chine

The same remarks apply to paragraphs 9

'and 11 of the Bill; and I doubt the

H

H

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,

&C.,

&c.

&C

C.

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advisability