s 20 Jurisdiction of courts
20.—(1) This Act does not affect the jurisdiction of any court to try a person for any offence under any other written law triable by the court where the act or omission of that person also constitutes a service offence. (2) Where a person subject to this Act has been charged with a service offence and has had the charge dealt with by a disciplinary officer, a court is debarred from trying the person subsequently for an offence substantially the same as that offence. (3) To avoid doubt, nothing in this Act is to be construed as restricting the jurisdiction of any court to try a person subject to this Act for an offence. (4) For the purposes of this section, a case is deemed to have been dealt with by a disciplinary officer notwithstanding that the finding of that officer has been quashed, or the award of that officer quashed or varied, on the review thereof. (5) A person subject to this Act must not be tried by a court for any service offence unless the Public Prosecutor has given his or her consent for the trial.