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2 Grounds for allowing appeal against conviction.U.K.
[(1)Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Court of Appeal—
(a)shall allow an appeal against conviction if it thinks that the conviction is unsafe; and
(b)shall dismiss such an appeal in any other case.]
(2)If the Court allows an appeal against conviction it shall quash the conviction.
(3)An order of the Court quashing a conviction shall, except when under section 6 of this Act the appellant is ordered to be retried, operate as a direction to the chief clerk acting for the court of trial to enter, instead of the record of conviction, a judgment and verdict of acquittal.
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