CO129-515-9 Accessories and Abettors Ordinance 1929 20-2-1929 - 26-9-1929 — Page 8

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Punishment

of accessory

24 & 25 Vict. c. 94, 8. 4.

5. Every accessory after the fact to any felony (except where it is otherwise specially enacted), whether the same after the fact. is a felony at common law or by virtue of any Act or Ordinance, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, and it shall be lawful for the court to require the offender to enter into his own recognizances, with or without sureties, for keeping the peace, in addition to such punishment : Provided that no person shall be imprisoned under this section for not finding sureties for nay period exceeding one year.

Several

accessories may be

included in same indict- ment.

24 & 25 Vict. c. 94, 8. 6.

Abettor in

misdemeanor may be

indicted, etc., as principal offender.

24 & 25

Vict. c. 94, 3. 8.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 3 of 1865.

ACCESSORIES GENERALLY.

6. Any number of accessories at different times to any felony, and any number of receivers at different times of property stolen at one time, may be charged with substan- tive felonies in the same indictment and may be tried together, notwithstanding that the principal felon is not included in the same indictment or is not in custody or amenable to justice.

7. Every person who aids, abets, counsels, or procures the commission of any misdemeanor, whether the same is a misdemeanor at common law or by virtue of any Act or Ordinance, shall be liable to be indicted, tried and punished as a principal offender.

8. The Accessories and Abettors Ordinance, 1865, is repealed.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 19th day of September, 1929.

E. I. WYNNE-JONES,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.