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Valid from 13/12/2010

PART 1 SSENTENCING

Other sentencing measuresS

26Voluntary intoxication by alcohol: effect in sentencingS

(1)Subsection (2) applies in relation to an offender who was, at the time of the offence, under the influence of alcohol as a result of having voluntarily consumed alcohol.

(2)A court, in sentencing the offender in respect of the offence, must not take that fact into account by way of mitigation.