Victorian Numbered Acts

COURTS LEGISLATION (JURISDICTION) ACT 2006 (NO 50 OF 2006)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  

   PART 2--AMENDMENT OF COUNTY COURT ACT 1958 AND REPEAL OF AMENDING ACT

   3.      County Court to have unlimited civil jurisdiction  
   4.      New section 91 inserted  
   5.      Repeal of Courts (Further Amendment) Act 1986  

   PART 3--AMENDMENT OF CRIMES ACT 1958

   6.      Notice to be served on corporate accused  
   7.      Time limits on trials  
   8.      New section 359B inserted  
   9.      Calendar of accused persons  
   10.     Re-sentencing on appeal where aggregate sentence involved  
   11.     New section 606 inserted  
   12.     Consequential amendment  

   PART 4--AMENDMENT OF CRIMES (CRIMINAL TRIALS) ACT 1999

   13.     Amendments consequential on abolition of post-committal conference  
   14.     Statute law revision  

   PART 5--AMENDMENT OF MAGISTRATES' COURT ACT 1989

   15.     How criminal proceeding commenced  
   16.     Issue of summons  
   17.     Summons to answer to a charge  
   18.     Service of summonses for summary offences by post  
   19.     Appearance by legal practitioner  
   20.     New section 38A inserted  
   21.     Non-appearance of defendant  
   22.     Indictable offences triable summarily  
   23.     New section 54A inserted  
   24.     Absence of corporate defendant from committal proceeding  
   25.     Compulsory examination procedure  
   26.     Non-appearance of defendant—outline of evidence  
   27.     New clause 2A inserted in Schedule 5  
   28.     New clause 4A inserted in Schedule 5  
   29.     New clauses 11AA and 11AB inserted in Part 5 of Schedule 5  
   30.     Defence notice  
   31.     Application for leave to cross-examine a witness  
   32.     Giving of evidence by witnesses  
   33.     Abolition of post-committal conferences  
   34.     New clause 24AA inserted in Schedule 5  
   35.     New clause 37 inserted in Schedule 8  

   PART 6--AMENDMENT OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ACT 1994

   36.     Definition of "special decision"  
   37.     New section 54 inserted  

   PART 7--AMENDMENT OF SENTENCING ACT 1991

   38.     Aggregate sentence of imprisonment  
   39.     New section 132 inserted  
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