CO129-515-9 Accessories and Abettors Ordinance 1929 20-2-1929 - 26-9-1929 — Page 7

L.S.

HONG KONG.

No. 14 OF 1929.

I assent.

C. CLEMENTI, Governor.

20th September, 1929.

An Ordinance to amend the law relating to accessories to and abettors of indictable offences.

[20th September, 1929.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Accessories and Short title. Abettors Ordinance, 1929.

ACCESSORIES BEFORE THE FACT.

fact may be

2. Every person who becomes an accessory before the Accessory fact to any felony, whether the same is a felony at common before the 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.

indicted, etc., as principal.

24 & 25 Vict. c. 94, s. 1.

Accessory before the fact may be indicted, etc., as such or as

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 substantive principal felony, together with the principal felon, or after felon. the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted 24 & 25 and convicted of a substantive felony, whether the prin- Vict. c. 94, cipal felon has or has not been previously convicted or is s. 2. 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, inay be punished.

ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT.

4. Every person who becomes an accessory after the Accessory fact to any felony, whether the same is a felony at common after the fact law or by virtue of any Act or Ordinance, may be indicted may be

indicted, etc., and convicted either as an accessory after the fact to the as such or as principal felony, together with the principal felon, or after substantive the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted felon. and convicted of a substantive felony, whether the prin- 24 & 25 cipal felon has or has not been previously convicted or is Vict. c. 94, or is not amenable to justice, and may thereupon be s. 3.

pun- ished in like manner as an accessory after the fact to the same felony, if convicted as an accessory, may be punished.

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