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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 2004 - SECT 47

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 2004 - SECT 47

47 .         Committal for sentence or trial, matters to be recorded

        (1)         If a court of summary jurisdiction commits an accused to a superior court for sentence or trial on an indictable charge, whether or not it has convicted the accused of the charge, the court must record on the prosecution notice —

            (a)         the accused’s plea before the court; and

            (b)         if the court convicted the accused, the fact that it did so; and

            (c)         whether the court has ordered a pre-sentence report in respect of the accused; and

            (d)         the date of the committal.

        (2)         A copy of a prosecution notice containing the matters recorded under subsection (1) sent to a superior court is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, evidence of its contents and of any matter recorded on it in under subsection (1).