Criminal Code Act 1995

Schedule - The Criminal Code  

Section 3

CHAPTER 10 - NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE  

Part 10.6 - Telecommunications Services  

Division 474 - Telecommunications offences  

Subdivision D - Offences relating to use of carriage service for child abuse material  

SECTION 474.24B  

474.24B   Alternative verdict if aggravated offence not proven  


If, on a trial for an offence (the aggravated offence ) against subsection 474.24A(1) , the trier of fact:


(a) is not satisfied that the defendant is guilty of the aggravated offence; but


(b) is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that he or she is guilty of an offence (the underlying offence ) against section 474.22 , 474.22A or 474.23 ;

it may find the defendant not guilty of the aggravated offence but guilty of the underlying offence, so long as the defendant has been accorded procedural fairness in relation to that finding of guilt.




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