Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) If the evidence
necessary to establish the commission by a person of an offence under the law
of this State is also the evidence necessary to establish the commission by
that person of another such offence, the person may be charged and convicted
of each offence but is not to be sentenced for more than one of the offences.
(2) If the evidence
necessary to establish the commission by a person of an offence under the law
of this State is also the evidence necessary to establish the commission by
that person of an offence under the law of the Commonwealth, a Territory or
another State, and the person has been sentenced for the offence under the law
of that other place, the person is not to be sentenced for the offence under
the law of this State.
(3) Despite
subsections (1) and (2), if an act or omission of an offender causes the
death of another, the offender may be sentenced for the offence of which he or
she is guilty by reason of causing the death despite the fact that he or she
has already been sentenced for some other offence constituted by that act or
omission.
(4) Nothing in this
section affects the operation of section 17 of The Criminal
Code .