South Australian Current Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 1921 - SECT 49

49—Information

        (1)         Where a person is suspected of having committed a summary offence, an information may be laid in the Magistrates Court in accordance with the rules charging that person with the offence.

        (2)         An information may be laid by the informant personally or by a legal practitioner or other person duly authorised to lay the information on the informant's behalf.

        (3)         If the information is laid orally, it must be reduced to writing.

        (4)         An information charging a person with summary offences only need not be laid on oath unless—

            (a)         some Special Act requires the information to be laid on oath; or

            (b)         a warrant for the arrest of the defendant is to be issued.

        (5)         An information must be filed in the Magistrates Court as soon as practicable after it is laid.