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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 20, 1929.

HONG KONG.

No. 14 or 1929.

I assent.

L.S.

C. CLEMENTI, Governor.

Short title.

20th September, 1929.

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

[20th September, 1929.]

Br 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 Abettors Ordinance, 1929.

Accessory before the fact may be indicted, etc., as principal.

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

ACCESSORIES BEFORE THE FACT,

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

Accessory 3. Every person who couusels, procures or commands before the

any other person to commit any felony, whether the same fact may be

is a felony at common law or by virtue of any Act or indicted, etc., as such or as

Ordinance, shall be guilty of felony, and may be indicted substantive

and convicted either as an accessory before the fact to the felon.

principal felony, together with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indieted and convicted of a substantive felony, whether the prin- cipal 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 convicted as an accessory, may be punished.

24 & 25

Vict. c. 94, s. 2.

Accessory after the fact

may be

indicted, etc., as such or as substantive

felon.

24 & 25

Vict. c. 94, s. 3.

ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT.

4. Every person who becomes an accessory after the fact to any felony, whether the same is a felony at common law or by virtue of any Act or Ordinance, may be indicted and convicted 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 prin- cipal felon has or has not been previously convicted or is or is not amenable to justice, and may thereupon be puu- ished in like manner as an accessory after the fact to the same felony, if convicted as an accessory, may be punished.