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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 2009 - SECT 1 Purposes

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 2009 - SECT 1

Purposes

The purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to clarify, simplify and consolidate the laws relating to criminal procedure in the Magistrates' Court, the County Court and the Supreme Court;

        (b)     to introduce a new procedure permitting the service of a notice to appear in the Magistrates' Court;

        (c)     to provide new pre-trial disclosure requirements for the prosecution;

        (d)     to provide for a 6-month time limit for the filing of charges for summary offences in the Children's Court;

        (e)     to provide for the transfer to the County Court or Supreme Court of summary offences related to an offence to be tried on indictment by the relevant court;

        (f)     to abolish the procedure of indictment by grand jury;

        (g)     to provide for interlocutory appeals in criminal proceedings in the County Court and the Supreme Court;

        (h)     to clarify the tests relating to determination of appeals by the Court of Appeal;

              (i)     to provide for the stay of sentences on appeal;

        (j)     to amend the Sentencing Act 1991 to provide for a maximum fine that may be imposed for an indictable offence that is heard and determined summarily;

        (k)     to amend the Crimes Act 1958 , the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act 1997 , the Magistrates' Court Act 1989 , the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 and the Appeal Costs Act 1998 ;

        (l)     to repeal the Crimes (Criminal Trials) Act 1999 ;

        (m)     to make consequential and other amendments.