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Section 22 Saving of liability and rights.

United Kingdom

(1)

Nothing in this Act shall prevent any person being liable under any other Act or otherwise to any indictment, proceeding, punishment, or penalty, other than is provided for any offence by this Act, so that no person be punished twice for the same offence.

(2)

Nothing in this Act, or in any Order in Council made thereunder, nor any proceedings under such Act or Order with respect to any matter, shall alter the liability of any person in any action or suit with reference to the same matter, so that no person shall be required to pay compensation twice in respect of the same injury.

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act repealed (19.11.1998) by 1998 c. 43, s. 1(1)(2), Sch. 1 Pt. X, Group 2 (with saving in Sch. 2 para. 8) and subject to amendments by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 5