Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 - SECT 23CA

    If the Court notifies the prosecutor and the accused in writing of a pre - trial hearing in relation to an indictment filed in the Court:

  (a)   the prosecutor and the accused must attend the pre - trial hearing; and

  (b)   the accused must enter a plea to each count in the indictment that relates to the accused (unless the accused has already done so in a previous pre - trial hearing).

Note:   The Court may also order pre - trial disclosure (see subsection   23CD(1)).