Separate receivers may be charged in one indictment

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If property has been stolen, taken, embezzled, obtained, fraudulently applied or disposed of in such a manner as to amount to a serious indictable offence—

(a)

any number of receivers at different times of the property, and

(b)

any number of receivers of different parts of the property,

may be charged with substantive serious indictable offences in the same indictment, and be tried together, even if the principal offender is not included in the indictment, not in custody or not amenable to justice.

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8 Separate receivers may be charged in one indictment