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Criminal and Other Offences (Procedure) (Amendment) Act, 2022 🇬🇭

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Republic of Ghana


The one thousand and seventy-ninth

Act

of the parliament of the republic of ghana
entitled

Criminal and Other Offences (Procedure) (Amendment) Act, 2022

  • Published by Government Gazette on 22 July 2022
  • Assented to on 22 July 2022
  • Commenced on 22 July 2022
AN ACT to amend the Criminal and Other Offences (Procedure) Act, 1960 (Act 30) to provide for plea bargaining in the administration of criminal justice and for related matters.

1. Sections 162A to 162R inserted

The Criminal and Other Offences (Procedure) Act 1960 (Act 30) is amended by the insertion after section 162 of

"Plea Bargaining

162A. Plea negotiations(1) Subject to section 162B, a person charged with a criminal offence may at any time before judgment, negotiate , with the Attorney-General for a plea agreement.(a) to reduce an offence charged or a lesser offence;(b) to withdraw a charge against an accused person; or(c) to reduce the punishment for an offence charged within the law that prescribed the punishment.(2) A ple…

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