45 Certificate or conviction shall be a bar to any other proceedings.E+W+N.I.
If any person against whom any such complaint as [F1in section 44 of this Act] shall have been preferred by or on the behalf of the party aggrieved shall have obtained such certificate, or, having been convicted, shall have paid the whole amount adjudged to be paid, or shall have suffered the imprisonment . . . F2 awarded, in every such case he shall be released from all further or other proceedings, civil or criminal, for the same cause.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 170, Sch. 8 para. 16, Sch. 15 para. 4
F2Words omitted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 1(2)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 45 amended (4.7.1996 but with effect 15.4.1997 as mentioned in s. 54) by 1996 c. 25, ss. 54(4), 57(1) (with s. 78(1)); S.I. 1997/1019, art. 2