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Criminal Code Act 1983
308Circumstances in which more than one person may be
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308 Circumstances in which more than one person may be
charged in the same indictment
(1) Any number of persons charged with committing or with counselling
or procuring the commission of the same offence, although at
different times, or of being accessories after the fact to the same
offence, although at different times, and any number of persons
charged with receiving, although at different times, any property
that has been obtained by means of an indictable offence, or by
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means of an act that, if it had been done in the Territory, would be
an indictable offence and that is an offence under the laws in force
in the place where it was done, or any part of any property so
obtained, may be charged with substantive offences in the same
indictment and may be tried together notwithstanding that the
perpetrator or the person who so obtained the property is not
included in the same indictment or is not amenable to justice.
(2) Any number of persons charged with committing different or
separate offences arising substantially out of the same facts or out
of closely related facts so that a substantial part of the facts is
relevant to all the charges may be charged in the same indictment
and tried together.