Part 2Encouraging or assisting crime

Inchoate offences

48Proving an offence under section 46

1

This section makes further provision about the application of section 47 to an offence under section 46.

2

It is sufficient to prove the matters mentioned in section 47(5) by reference to one offence only.

3

The offence or offences by reference to which those matters are proved must be one of the offences specified in the indictment.

4

Subsection (3) does not affect any enactment or rule of law under which a person charged with one offence may be convicted of another and is subject to section 57.