CO129-511-21 Accessories and Abettors Ordinance 1928- Bill 13-9-1928 - 27-11-1928 — Page 20

BONG

KONG

1924 REVISION

ACCESSORIES AND ABETTORS, No. 3 of 1865.

No. 3 of 1865.

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An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the laws relating [Originally

to accessories to and abettors of indictable offences.

114th June, 1865.]

SI

No. 5 of 1865..

Law Rev. Ord., 1924.]

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Accessories and Short title. Abettors Ordinance, 1865.

Accessories before the fact,

24 & 25 Viet.

c. 94.

*

fact may be

2. Every person who becomes an accessory before the fact Accessory to any felony, whether the same is a felony at common law before the or by virtue of any Ordinance, may be indicted, tried, con- indicted, etc., victed, and punished in all respects as if he were a principal 24 & 25 Vict. as principal, felon.

c. 94, s. 1.

before the

as such or as substantive

felon.

24 & 25 Vict. c. 94, s. 2.

3. Every person who counsels, procures, or commands any Accessory other person to commit any felony, whether the same is a fact may he felony at common law or by virtue of any Ordinance, shall indicted, etc., 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 con- victed as an accessory, may be punished.

Accessories after the fact.

may be in-

as sutantive felon.

as such or as

4. Every person who becomes an accessory after the fact Accessory to any felony, whether the same is a felony at common law after the fact or by virtue of any Ordinance, may be indicted and convicted dicted, etc., either as an accessory after 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 like manner as any accessory after the fact to the same felony, if convicted as an accessory, may be punished.

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.*

COLONIAL OFFICE LIBRAEY.

24 & 25 Vict. c. 94, s. 3.

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