PART 1

SENTENCING

Other sentencing measures

Voluntary intoxication by alcohol: effect in sentencing
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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.
S. 26 in force at 13.12.2010 by S.S.I. 2010/413, art. 2, Sch. (with Sch.)