CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT ACT 1892 Reprinted as in force on 1 December 2008 Reprint No. 1B > Contents 1. Short title 4. If prisoner does not require witnesses to attend, their depositions may be put in at trial with any exhibits attached Endnotes - LONG TITLE An Act to further amend the criminal law 1 Short title This Act may be known and cited as the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1892. 4 If prisoner does not require witnesses to attend, their depositions may be put in at trial with any exhibits attached (1) When a person charged with an indictable offence other than treason or murder is committed for trial, the justice or justices by whom the person is committed shall, when the depositions of the witnesses are read over to the person, ask the person after the reading of the deposition of each witness whose evidence is in the opinion of the justice or justices of a formal character, whether the person wishes that witness to be produced at the person's trial or whether he or she will be content that the deposition as taken and read to the person shall be produced and admitted as evidence at the trial together with the exhibits (if any) annexed. (2) If the accused person states that the accused person does not require the production of such witness at his or her trial the accused person shall sign a statement to that effect in the form in the schedule, and the signature shall be attested by the committing justice or justices, and in any such case the Crown shall not be required to produce the witness at the trial of the accused person, but may tender as evidence at the trial the deposition of the witness with any exhibits annexed thereto and the statement signed by the accused and attested by the committing justice or justices, and thereupon the deposition with the exhibits annexed shall be received as evidence at the trial. - The evidence of A.B. [and C.D.], a witness [or witnesses] produced at my examination before justices on the charge of , having been read over to me, I hereby state that I do not require the said A.B. [and C.D.] to be produced as a witness [or witnesses] at my trial, and I consent that [his, her or their] deposition [or depositions] and the exhibits [here specify them] annexed thereto shall be admitted as evidence on my trial. [Signature of accused] Witnesses to signature of accused: (Signed by) } Committing justices This day of , 20 - NOTES Page Date to which amendments incorporated 6 Key 7 Table of reprints 7 Tables in earlier reprints 8 List of legislation 8 List of annotations 9 This is the reprint date mentioned in the Reprints Act 1992, section 5(c). Accordingly, this reprint includes all amendments that commenced operation on or before 1 December 2008. Future amendments of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1892 may be made in accordance with this reprint under the Reprints Act 1992, section 49. Key Explanation Key Explanation AIA = Acts Interpretation Act 1954 (prev) = previously amd = amended proc = proclamation amdt = amendment prov = provision ch = chapter pt = part def = definition pubd = published div = division R[X] = Reprint No. [X] exp = expires/expired RA = Reprints Act 1992 gaz = gazette reloc = relocated hdg = heading renum = renumbered ins = inserted rep = repealed lap = lapsed (retro) = retrospectively notfd = notified rv = revised edition num = numbered s = section o in c = order in council sch = schedule om = omitted sdiv = subdivision orig = original SIA = Statutory Instruments Act 1992 p = page SIR = Statutory Instruments Regulation 2002 para = paragraph SL = subordinate legislation prec = preceding sub = substituted pres = present unnum = unnumbered Reprint No. Amendments to Effective Reprint date 1 1961 Act No. 11 29 March 1961 21 March 1996 Reprint No. Amendments included Effective Notes 1A 2004 Act No. 43 3 December 2004 1B 2008 Act No. 55 1 December 2008 Name of table Reprint No. Changed names and titles 1 Renumbered provisions 1 >