The Criminal Code Act 1899 - Ozcase Queensland Historical Legal ...

180 SS. 559-562 CRIMINAL CODE
This section does not affect the right of an accused person to plead
to the jurisdiction of a Court.
lace of Trial. When a person has been committed for
trial for an indictable offence at a Court held at any place, whether he
has been admitted to bail or not, the Supreme Court or a Judge thereof
may, on the application of the Crown or of the accused person, and upon
good cause shown, order that the trial shall be held at some other place,
either before the same Court or before some other Court of competent
jurisdiction, at a time to be named in the order.
When an indictment has been presented against any person in. the
Supreme Court or a Circuit Court, the Court may, on the ap~licatio~ of
the Crown or the accused person, order that the trial shall be held at
some place other than that named in the margin of the indictment and at a
time to be named in the order.
When an order is made under the provisions of this section, the
coilsequences are the same in all respects, and with regard to all persons,
as if the accused person had been committed for trial at the place named
in the order and at the Sittings named therein; and, if he has been admitted
to bail, the recognizances of bail are to be deemed to be enlarged to that
time and place accordingly.
The recognizances of any persons who are bound to attend as
witnesses are in like manner to be deemed to be enlarged to the same
time and place.
Notice of such time and place must be given to the persons bound
by the recognizances, otherwise their recognizances cannot be forfeited.
CHAPTER LX-INDICTMENTS
re of ~ ~ When a person ~ charged i with an ~ indictable
offence has been committed for trial and it is intended to put him on his
trial for the of€ence, the charge is to be reduced to writing in a document
which is called an indictment.
The indictment is to be signed and presented to the Court by a
Crown Law Officer or some other person appointed in that behalf by
the Governor in Council.
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011s. A Crown Law Officer may present an
f criminal jurisdiction against any person for
any indictable offence, whether the accused person has been committed
for trial or not.
An officer appointed by the Governor in Council to present indict-
ments in any Court of criminal jurisdiction may present an indictment
in that Court against any person for any indictable offence within the
jurisdiction of the Court, whether the accused person has been c~mmitted
for trial or not and against any person for an indictable offence who with
his prior consent has been committed for trial or for sentence for an
offence before that Court
As amended by Act of 1956, 5 Eliz. 2 No. 5, s. 5.
562. Arrest of Ferso11 C flicio Hnfomatiion. When an
iodictment has been presented against a person who is not in custody,
and has not been committed for trial or held to bail to attend to be