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Part IE+W Appeal to Court of Appeal in Criminal Cases

Appeal against conviction on indictmentE+W

4 Sentence when appeal allowed on part of an indictment.E+W

(1)This section applies where, on an appeal against conviction on an indictment containing two or more counts, the Court of Appeal allow the appeal in respect of part of the indictment.

(2)Except as provided by subsection (3) below, the Court may in respect of any count on which the appellant remains convicted pass such sentence, in substitution for any sentence passed thereon at the trial, as they think proper and is authorised by law for the offence of which he remains convicted on that count.

(3)The Court shall not under this section pass any sentence such that the appellant’s sentence on the indictment as a whole will, in consequence of the appeal, be of greater severity than the sentence (taken as a whole) which was passed at the trial for all offences of which he was convicted on the indictment.