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MISUSE OF DRUGS ACT 1981 - SECT 10

10 .         Alternative verdicts

                A court trying a person charged with having committed a crime under —

            (a)         section 6(1) may, if the evidence does not establish that that person is guilty of that crime but does establish that he is guilty of a simple offence under section 6(2); or

            (b)         section 7(1) may, if the evidence does not establish that that person is guilty of that crime but does establish that he is guilty of a simple offence under section 7(2),

                convict him of having committed that simple offence and, whether that court is a summary court, the District Court or the Supreme Court, impose on him the penalty referred to in section 34(1)(e).

        [Section 10 amended: No. 4 of 2004 s. 58.]



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