South Australian Numbered Acts

STATUTES AMENDMENT (COURTS EFFICIENCY REFORMS) ACT 2012 (NO 43 OF 2012) - SECT 37

37—Amendment of section 103—Procedure in Magistrates Court

Section 103—after subsection (3) insert:

        (3aa)         If a defendant charged with a major indictable offence admits the charge before the charge proceeds to a preliminary examination, the Court may, subject to section 108(1)—

                  (i)         determine and impose sentence on the defendant (in the same way as for a charge of a summary offence); or

                  (ii)         commit the defendant to a superior Court for sentence.