Section 9 - Offences under more than one enactment

(1) Subject to article 19 of the Constitution, where an act constitutes a criminal offence or an offence under two or more enactments, the offender is liable to be prosecuted and punished under either of the two, or any of those enactments, but the offender shall not be punished twice for the same offence, criminal or otherwise.

(2) Subsection (1) does not affect a right conferred by an enactment on a person to take disciplinary measures against the offender in respect of the act constituting the offence.