Definitions

Current

In this Division—

negotiations document means—

(a)

if an offender was represented by an Australian legal practitioner in proceedings—

(i)

a case conference certificate (including any later plea offer) filed in committal proceedings for the offence concerned under the Criminal Procedure Act 1986, or

(ii)

any other document that records an offer made by the offender to plead guilty to an offence specified in the document, served on the prosecutor in proceedings for the offence—

(A)

following committal for trial or sentence, or

(B)

after an indictment containing a new count offence is filed, or

(b)

if an offender was not represented in proceedings, any document served on the prosecutor in the proceedings that records an offer made by the offender to plead guilty to an offence specified in the document.

new count offence means—

(a)

an offence the subject of an ex officio indictment, or

(b)

an offence for which the count is inserted in an indictment by amending the indictment (the original indictment).

sentence means a term of imprisonment, fine or the term of an intensive correction order, a community correction order or a conditional release order.

This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandum Second reading speech

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25B Definitions