Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

COURTS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2014 (NO. 1 OF 2014) - SECT 32

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68D     Back-up and related offences

    (1)     This section applies in the following circumstances:

        (a)     if the Magistrates Court commits an accused person for trial or sentencing to the Supreme Court under any of the following provisions of the Magistrates Court Act 1930

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              (i)     section 90B (Back-up and related offences––transfer to Supreme Court);

              (ii)     section 92A (1) (Committal for sentence for indictable offence tried summarily);

              (iii)     section 94 (1) (b) (Discharge or committal for trial);

              (iv)     section 291G (2) (Childrens Court may send cases to Supreme Court for sentencing);

        (b)     at the conclusion of the trial of an accused person for an indictable offence, or in the course of a sentencing proceeding.

    (2)     The court must deal with any back-up or related offence with which the accused person has been charged if the court considers that it is in the interests of justice.

    (3)     The court may deal with a back-up or related offence with which an accused person has been charged even though it is not doing so in relation to a back-up or related offence with which another accused person in the same proceedings is charged.