Criminal Procedure Act 2009

to clarify, simplify and consolidate the laws relating to criminal procedure in the Magistrates' Court, the County Court and the Supreme Court;

to introduce a new procedure permitting the service of a notice to appear in the Magistrates' Court;

to provide new pre-trial disclosure requirements for the prosecution;

to provide for a 6-month time limit for the filing of charges for summary offences in the Children's Court;

to provide for the transfer to the County Court or Supreme Court of summary offences related to an offence to be tried on indictment by the relevant court;

to abolish the procedure of indictment by grand jury;

to provide for interlocutory appeals in criminal proceedings in the County Court and the Supreme Court;

to clarify the tests relating to determination of appeals by the Court of Appeal;

to provide for the stay of sentences on appeal;

to amend the Sentencing Act 1991 to provide for a maximum fine that may be imposed for an indictable offence that is heard and determined summarily;

to amend the Crimes Act 1958, the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act 1997, the Magistrates' Court Act 1989, the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 and the Appeal Costs Act 1998;

to repeal the Crimes (Criminal Trials) Act 1999;

to make consequential and other amendments.