New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH (FORENSIC PROVISIONS) ACT 1990 - SECT 7

7 Time at which question of unfitness may be raised

(1) The question of a person’s unfitness to be tried for an offence is, so far as practicable, to be raised before the person is arraigned on a charge in respect of the offence but may be raised at any time during the course of the hearing of the proceedings in respect of the offence.

(2) Nothing in this section prevents the question of a person’s unfitness to be tried for an offence from being raised on more than one occasion in respect of the same proceedings.