Section 127: Attempt to commit an offence
consolidated text (as at 2011, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
127. Attempt to commit an offence
(1) Where, on the trial of a person charged with an offence, it appears to
the Magistrate that the accused did not complete the offence charged, but
that he was guilty only of an attempt to commit the same, such person shall
not by reason thereof be entitled to be acquitted, but the Magistrate may
find that the defendant is not guilty of the offence charged, but is guilty of
an attempt to commit the same, and such person may then be punished in
the same manner as if he had been convicted upon an information for attempting to commit the particular offence charged in the said information.
(2) No person so convicted shall be liable to be afterwards prosecuted for
an attempt to commit the offence for which he was so tried.