(1) A person charged before a court, other than a prescribed court, with an offence against subsection 14(1) or 15(1) may be found guilty of any other offence against that subsection of which the person could have been found guilty if:
(a) the act or omission alleged to constitute the first - mentioned offence had occurred in the Jervis Bay Territory ; and
(b) the person had been charged with the first - mentioned offence before a prescribed court.
"prescribed court" means a court of the Australian Capital Territory
exercising jurisdiction in or in relation to the Jervis Bay Territory .