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Defence Act, 1957 (Act No. 44 of 1957)

Chapter XI : Discipline, Legal Procedure and Offences

106. Person tried once only

 

 

Any person who has been convicted or acquitted of an offence by a military court, and any person to whom the Military Discipline Code applies and who has been convicted or acquitted of an offence by any other court, shall not be liable to be tried again in respect of that offence or any other offence of which he could have been convicted in terms of the provisions of any law on a charge of the first-mentioned offence, by any court.

 

[Section 106 substituted by section 30 of Act No. 132 of 1992]