MAGISTRATES COURT ACT 1991 - SECT 43

MAGISTRATES COURT ACT 1991 - SECT 43

43—Reservation of questions of law

        (1)         The Court may reserve any question of law arising in a criminal action (except committal proceedings for a charge of an indictable offence) for determination by a superior court.

        (2)         The question will be reserved—

            (b)         in any other case—for determination by the Supreme Court constituted of a single Judge (but the Judge may, if he or she thinks fit, refer the matter for determination by the Court of Appeal).

        (3)         The Court for whose determination a question of law is reserved under this section may determine the question and give any consequential orders or directions that may be appropriate in the circumstances of the case.