Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION (BEVERAGE CONTAINERS AND PLASTIC BAGS) ACT 2011 - SECT 82

    (1)     This section applies if, on the trial of a person charged with an offence against a provision mentioned in the following Table (the prosecuted offence ), the trier of fact:

        (a)     is not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt the person committed the prosecuted offence; but

        (b)     is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt the person committed the offence, or the offence of attempting to commit the offence, mentioned in the Table opposite the prosecuted offence (the alternative offence ).

    (2)     The trier of fact may find the person not guilty of the prosecuted offence but guilty of the alternative offence.

Table     Alternative verdicts

Prosecuted offence	Alternative offence
section 13(1)	section 13(2)
section 14(1)	section 14(2)