South Australian Numbered Acts

STATUTES AMENDMENT (COURTS EFFICIENCY REFORMS) ACT 2012 (NO 43 OF 2012) - SECT 39

39—Amendment of section 108—Forum for sentence

Section 108—before its present contents (now to be designated as subsection (2)) insert:

        (1)         If—

            (a)         a defendant admits a charge of a major indictable offence (other than treason, murder, or an attempt or conspiracy to commit, or assault with intent to commit, either of those offences); and

            (b)         the Director of Public Prosecutions for the State or the Commonwealth and the defendant consent to the defendant being sentenced by the Court,

the Court is to determine and impose sentence itself unless the Court is of the opinion that the interests of justice require committal to a superior Court.