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ACCESSORIES GENERALLY.

same indict-

6. Any number of accessories at different times to any Several felony, and any number of receivers at different times of accessories property stolen at one time, may be charged with substan- may be tive felonies in the same indictment and may be tried included in together, notwithstanding that the principal felon is not ment. included in the same indictment or is not in custody or 24 & 25 amenable to justice.

Vict. c. 94, s. 6.

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

as principal offender.

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

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 The Accessories and Abettors Ordinance, 1865, is Repeal of repealed.

Ordinance No. 3 of 1865.

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Objects and Reasons,

1. This Ordinance amends the law relating to accesso- ries to and abettors of indictable offences.

2. Sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7, are re-enactments of sce- tions 2 to 5 inclusive and section 8 of Ordinance No. 3 of 1865, except that in each of these sections the words "Act or

are inserted before the word Ordinance. This amendment is important for such cases at that of piracy with acts endangering life, which is made a felony by 7 William IV and 1 Viet, c. 88.

3. As attainder has been abolished (sec section 70 of Ordinance 9 of 1899), section 6 of Ordinance No. 3 of 1865 has not been re-enacted.

4. Section 6 of this Ordinance re-enacts scction 7 of Ordinance No. 3 of 1865.

5. Section 13 repeals Ordinance No. 3 of 1865.

29th August, 1929.

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General.