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Supreme Court Act 1933
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68T Limitations on indictment
(1) If an acquitted person is, by an order under division 8AA.3, liable to
be retried for a category A offence or a category B offence, the
director of public prosecutions must not, in a proceeding allowed by
the order, present an indictment against the person for an offence that
was not enacted at the time the person is alleged to have engaged in
conduct constituting the offence for which the person was acquitted
and that was the subject of the application for the order.
(2) Subsection (3) applies if an acquitted person is, by an order under
division 8AA.3, liable to be—
(a) retried for a category A offence or a category B offence (a retrial
offence); and
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(b) tried for an administration of justice offence (a justice offence),
in relation to the proceeding for which the person was acquitted
(the original proceeding) and that was the subject of the
application for the order that the person be retried for the
category A or category B offence.
(3) The director of public prosecutions may, in a proceeding allowed by
the order, present an indictment against the person for—
(a) if the justice offence does not directly controvert the person’s
acquittal in the original proceeding—both the retrial offence and
the justice offence; or
(b) if the justice offence directly controverts the person’s acquittal
in the original proceeding—either the retrial offence or the
justice offence, but not both.