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CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 588

Transitional provisions (Crimes (Amendment) Act 1997—Part 3)

    (1)     Section 398A applies to any trial, committal proceeding or hearing of a charge for an offence that commences on or after 1 January 1998, irrespective of when the offence to which the trial, committal proceeding or hearing relates is alleged to have been committed.

    (2)     For the purposes of subsection (1)—

        (a)     a trial commences on arraignment of the accused in accordance with Subdivision (12) of Division 1 of Part III; and

        (b)     a committal proceeding commences on the committal mention date; and

        (c)     a hearing of a charge for an offence commences on the taking of a formal plea from the accused.

S. 589
inserted by No. 81/1997
s. 30.



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