South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts103—DPP may lay information in superior court
(1) An information may
only be presented to the Supreme Court or the District Court in the name and
by the authority of the Director of Public Prosecutions, and, despite any
other provision of this Part, a person named in that information may, as a
result, be tried at any criminal sessions of the Supreme Court or District
Court (as the case may be) for any offence on that information.
(2) The fact that an
information charging an indictable offence has been filed in the Magistrates
Court does not prevent the Director of Public Prosecutions from subsequently
presenting to the Supreme Court or District Court an information charging the
same offence if the Director of Public Prosecutions thinks fit (and the
information filed in the Magistrates Court will, on the giving of written
notice by the Director of Public Prosecutions to the Registrar of that fact,
be taken to have been withdrawn).
(3) Subject to any
modifications prescribed by the regulations, the provisions of this Act, and
any other law, relating to informations charging indictable offences apply to
an information presented to the Supreme Court or District Court in accordance
with this section.
(4) For the avoidance
of doubt, any power of the Supreme Court or the District Court to order the
transfer of proceedings under this or any other Act or law applies to
proceedings brought under this section in the same way as it applies to any
other criminal proceedings.