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Act index » Schedule 1 - Charges on a charge-sheet or indictment (Sections 6(3), 159(3))
3 Statutory offence
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(1)In this clause— statutory offence means an offence created by an Act or subordinate instrument, or by a provision of an Act or subordinate instrument.
(2)For the purposes of clause 1(a), a statement of a statutory offence is sufficient if it—
(a)identifies the provision creating the offence; and
(b)describes the offence in the words of the provision creating it, or in similar words.
(3)If a statutory offence states—
(a)the offence to be committed in alternative ways; or
(b)any element or part of the offence in the alternative—
a charge may state the commission of the offence or the element or part of the offence in the alternative.