South Australian Numbered Acts

SUMMARY PROCEDURE (ABOLITION OF COMPLAINTS) AMENDMENT ACT 2016 (NO 43 OF 2016) - SECT 14

14—Amendment of section 49—Information

        (1)         Section 49(1)—delete "a complaint may be made" and substitute:

an information may be laid

        (2)         Section 49(2)—delete "A complaint may be made by the complainant personally or by a legal practitioner or other person duly authorised to make the complaint on the complainant's" and substitute:

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

        (3)         Section 49(3)—delete "complaint is made orally" and substitute:

information is laid orally

        (4)         Section 49(4)—delete "A complaint need not be made" and substitute:

An information charging a person with summary offences only need not be laid

        (5)         Section 49(4)(a)—delete "complaint to be made" and substitute:

information to be laid

        (6)         Section 49(5)—delete "A complaint" and substitute:

An information

        (7)         Section 49(5)—delete "made" and substitute:

laid