Criminal Procedure Code · s 420

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s 420Retrial

(1)

Where the Court of Appeal allows an appeal against conviction and it appears to the Court of Appeal that the interests of justice so require, it may order the appellant to be retried.

(2)

A person shall not under this section be ordered to be retried for any offence other than -

(a)

the offence of which he was convicted at the original trial and in respect of which his appeal is allowed as mentioned in subsection (1);

(b)

an offence of which he could have been convicted at the original trial on a charge for the first-mentioned offence;

(c)

an offence charged in an alternative count in respect of which the Judge did not give a verdict in consequence of convicting him of the first-mentioned offence; and

(d)

any other offence which may have been disclosed by evidence adhuced at the original trial. -