PART IV - PROVISIONS RELATING TO ALL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
121 Persons convicted or acquitted not to be tried again for the same offence
A person who has been once tried by a court of competent jurisdiction for an offence and convicted or acquitted of such offence shall, while such conviction or acquittal has not been reversed or set aside, not be liable to be tried again on the same facts for the same offence.
PART VI - PROCEDURE IN TRIALS BEFORE MAGISTRATES’ COURTS
203 Order of acquittal bar to further proceedings
The production of a copy of the order of acquittal, certified by the clerk or other officer of the court, shall, without other proof, be a bar to any subsequent information or complaint for the same matter against the same accused person.
PART VIII - PROCEDURE IN TRIALS BEFORE THE HIGH COURT ON INFORMATION
245 Plea of autrefois acquit and autrefois convict
(1) Any accused person against whom an information is filed may plead —
(a) that he has been previously convicted or acquitted, as the case may be, of the same offence; or
(b) that he has obtained the Queen’s pardon for his offence.
(2) If either of such pleas are pleaded in any case and denied to be true in fact, the court shall try whether such plea is true in fact or not.
(3) If the court holds that the facts alleged by the accused do not prove the plea, or if it finds that it is false in fact, the accused shall be required to plead to the information.
PART IV - GENERAL RULES AS TO CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
20 Person not to be punished twice for same offence
A person cannot be punished twice either under the provision of this Code or under the provisions of any other law for the same act or omission, except in the case where the act or omission is such that by means thereof he causes the death of another person, in which case he may be convicted of the offence of which he is guilty by reason of causing such death, notwithstanding that he has already been convicted of some other offence constituted by the act or omission.
Part 2 – Bill of Rights
Division 3 – Protection of the fundamental rights and freedoms
Subdivision A – Protection Generally
22 Protection of Law
(8) Subject to subsection (14)(c), no-one who shows that he has been tried for an offence by a competent court and was either —
(a) convicted; or
(b) acquitted,
shall again be tried for —
(c) the same offence; or
(d) any other offence of which he could have been convicted at the trial of that offence,
except on the order of a superior court in the course of appeal or review
proceedings relating to the conviction or acquittal.
(9) No-one shall be tried for an offence if he shows that —
(a) he has been pardoned for the offence; and
(b) if the pardon was a conditional pardon, he has complied with the conditions of the pardon.
PART II
BILL OF RIGHTS
DIVISION 3 - PROTECTION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
Subdivision A - Protection Generally
22 Protection of law
(8) an offence by a competent court and was either —
(a) convicted; or
(b) acquitted,
shall again be tried for —
(c) the same offence; or
(d) any other offence of which he could have been convicted at the trial of that offence, except on the order of a superior court in the course of appeal or review proceedings relating to the conviction or acquittal.
(9) No-one shall be tried for an offence if he shows that —
(a) he has been pardoned for the offence; and
(b) if the pardon was a conditional pardon, he has complied with the conditions of the pardon.
1. Except as provided in this Statute, no person shall be tried before the Court with respect to conduct which formed the basis of crimes for which the person has been convicted or acquitted by the Court.
2. No person shall be tried by another court for a crime referred to in article 5 for which that person has already been convicted or acquitted by the Court.
3. No person who has been tried by another court for conduct also proscribed under article 6, 7, 8 or 8 bis shall be tried by the Court with respect to the same conduct unless the proceedings in the other court:
(a) Were for the purpose of shielding the person concerned from criminal responsibility for crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court; or
(b) Otherwise were not conducted independently or impartially in accordance with the norms of due process recognized by international law and were conducted in a manner which, in the circumstances, was inconsistent with an intent to bring the person concerned to justice.