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Section 25AA Power of court in trial in one offence to convict of another.F1

Scotland

If, upon a trial for an offence under any of sections 21, 22, 23, 23A, 24 or 25 of this Act, or any rule of law relating to reset, the court is not satisfied that the accused is guilty of the offence charged but is guilty of another of those offences, it may acquit him of the offence charged but find him guilty of the other offence and he shall then be liable to the same punishment as for that other offence.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Ss. 25, 25AA substituted for s. 25 (18.10.1996) by 1996 c. 44, ss, 9, 14(2)

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act repealed (18.11.1996) by 1996 c. 58, s. 48(2)(6), Sch. 5 (with s. 43(1))