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| (2) When a person is charged with an offence and facts are proved which reduce it to a minor offence he may be convicted of the minor offence although he was not charged with it and although jurisdiction to try such minor offence is exclusively vested in some other court. |
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| (3) Anything in this section shall not be deemed to authorize a conviction for any offence referred to in section 135 when a complaint has not been made as required by that section. |
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