Criminal Justice Act 2006

77

F26[Double jeopardy.

77. A person who is acquitted or convicted of an offence in a place outside the State shall not be proceeded against for an offence—

(a) under section 71 consisting of the act, or the conspiracy to do an act, that constituted the offence,

(b) under section 72 consisting of the act that constituted the offence, or

(c) of conspiracy to murder under section 4 of the Act of 1861 consisting of the act, or the conspiracy to do the act, that constituted the offence,

of which the person was so acquitted or convicted.]

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F26

Substituted (1.11.2023) by Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023 (24/2023), s. 4(e), S.I. No. 525 of 2023.