Criminal Procedure Regulation 2017

The prosecutor must, as soon as practicable after determining that criminal proceedings are ready to proceed on the part of the Crown, give the Criminal Listing Director a notice of readiness for the proceedings.

The notice must be in the form approved for the time being by the Criminal Listing Director and must be accompanied by a draft of the indictment proposed to be presented in the proceedings.

The Criminal Listing Director must, as soon as practicable after receiving the notice—

give a copy of the notice, and of the draft indictment that accompanies the notice, to the registrar of the relevant court, and

give a copy of the draft indictment to each accused person or the accused person’s Australian legal practitioner.

The prosecutor must, as soon as practicable after determining that the indictment to be presented in any criminal proceedings is to depart in any material particular from the draft indictment that accompanied the notice of readiness for the proceedings, give the Criminal Listing Director a draft of the indictment then proposed to be presented in the proceedings.

The later draft must contain a notice, in the form approved for the time being by the Criminal Listing Director, indicating the nature and extent of the departures from the earlier draft.

The Criminal Listing Director must, as soon as practicable after receiving a draft indictment under subclause (4), give a copy of the draft indictment to the registrar and to each accused person or the accused person’s Australian legal practitioner.