FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 - SECT 23GB Accused taken to have been committed for trial etc.
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 - SECT 23GB
Accused taken to have been committed for trial etc.(1) For the purposes of this Act and the Judiciary Act 1903 , the committal court is taken to have made an order:
(a) on the day it made the committal order; and
(b) to the effect of committing the accused for trial before the Court for the indictable offence.
(2) If an indictment including a count covering the indictable offence is filed in accordance with this Division, then this Division applies as if:
(a) the accused entered before the Court, immediately after that filing, a plea of guilty to the count; and
(b) paragraph 23CA(b) were omitted.
Note: The Court must accept the plea unless either the Court gives
leave to the accused to change the plea to a plea of not guilty, or if it
would be contrary to the interests of justice to accept the plea (see
subsection 23FJ(1)).