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163No further prosecution after trial for serious indictable offence where alternative verdict possible
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#### 163 No further prosecution after trial for serious indictable offence where alternative verdict possible
163 No further prosecution after trial for serious indictable offence where alternative verdict possible
> If under any Act a person who is tried for a serious indictable offence may be acquitted of that offence but found guilty of some other offence, the person is not liable to further prosecution on the same facts for that other offence.
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> **ss 163 (previously ss 124, 125):** Renumbered 2001 No 119, Sch 1 \[74\].