Victorian Consolidated Regulations

MAGISTRATES' COURT (CRIMINAL PROCEDURE) RULES 2006

S.R. No. 55/2006
Version incorporating amendments as at 19 June 2008

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Rule Page
           ORDER 1-PRELIMINARY
   1.01.   Objects
   1.02.   Authorising provisions
   1.03.   Commencement
   1.04.   Definition
           ORDER 2-THE COURT RECORD
   2.01.   Authentication of orders
   2.02.   Issue and authentication of process
   2.03.   Particulars of warrants to be entered in the register
   2.04.   Authentication of warrants
           ORDER 3-INFRINGEMENTS COURT
   3.01.   Infringements Court
           ORDER 4-REMAND WARRANT
   4.01.   Prescribed venue of the Court-Schedule 1.
           ORDER 5-DOCUMENTS
   5.01.   Content and form of documents
           ORDER 6-WITNESS SUMMONSES IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
   6.01.   Form of witness summons
           ORDER 7-PRE-HEARING DISCLOSURE
   7.01.   Pre-hearing disclosure by electronic transmission
           ORDER 8-ENFORCEMENT OF FINES
   8.01.   Definitions
   8.02.   Proper officers
   8.03.   Application for time to pay, instalment order or variation of instalment order
   8.04.   Consideration of application
   8.05.   Determination of the application
   8.06.   Enforcement of fines against a natural person
   8.07.   Declaration of liability of a director for offence of body corporate
   8.08.   Enforcement of fine against body corporate
           ORDER 9-WARRANTS TO SEIZE PROPERTY
   9.01.   Application
   9.02.   Form of warrant
   9.03.   Execution of warrant
   9.04.   Form of pre-hearing disclosure notice
           ORDER 10-COMMITTAL PROCEEDINGS
   10.01.  Caution
           ORDER 11-FORMS
   11.01.  Prescribed forms
   11.02.  Advice in other languages
   11.03.  Notice concerning outline of evidence and clause 6 of Schedule 2 of the Act
   11.04.  Non-compliance with prescribed forms
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           SCHEDULE 1-Prescribed Venues of the Court for the Purposes of Section 82 of the Magistrates' Court Act 1989.
           SCHEDULE 2-Forms for Enforcement of Fines
           Form 1-Application for Time to Pay a Fine
           Form 2-Application for Community-based Order
           Form 3-Community-based Order in Default of Payment of a Fine
           Form 4-Consent to the Making of a Community-based Order for Unpaid Work in Lieu of Payment of a Fine
           Form 5-Notice about the Procedure for Enforcement of Fines
           Form 6-Summons for Failure to Pay a Fine
           Form 7-Notice about the Procedure for Enforcement of a Fine (Bodies Corporate)
           SCHEDULE 3-Forms in Criminal Proceedings
           Form 1-Witness Summons
           Form 2-Warrant to Seize Property
           Form 3-Important: Do Not Ignore this Document
           Form 4-Certified Extract
           Form 5-Charge
           Form 6-Continuation of Charges
           Form 7-Charge and Summons
           Form 8-Charge and Warrant to Arrest
           Form 9-Affidavit/Declaration of Service of Summons to Answer to a Charge
           Form 10-Brief of Evidence
           Form 11-Notice Accompanying an Outline of Evidence
           Form 12-Warrant to Arrest
           Form 13-Remand Warrant
           Form 14-Warrant to Imprison
           Form 15-Warrant to Imprison
           Form 16-Search Warrant
           Form 17-Revoked
           Form 18-Election to Stand Trial without a Committal Proceeding being Conducted
           Form 19-Application for a Rehearing
           Form 20-Notice
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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
           3. Explanatory Details
           ORDER 1-PRELIMINARY