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COUNTY COURT ACT 1958 - SECT 36A

Criminal jurisdiction of County Court

    (1)     The court shall have jurisdiction to inquire into hear and determine and adjudge all indictable offences (whether committed before or after the commencement of the County Court (Jurisdiction) Act 1968 ) save and except the offences following (that is to say)—

        (a)     treason and misprision of treason;

        (b)     the offences referred to in sections 3, 10, 11 and 13 of the Crimes Act 1958 and the offence referred to in section 130 of that Act of burglariously breaking and entering a dwelling house and assaulting with intent to murder a person therein;

        (c)     attempts to murder;

S. 36A(1)(d) repealed by No. 8132 s. 2.

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        (e)     unlawful combinations and conspiracies to commit any offence which when committed by one person is triable only in the Supreme Court;

        (f)     offences which by any Act cannot be prosecuted or tried in the County Court.

    (2)     Subject to subsection (1) and unless otherwise expressly provided the County Court shall have jurisdiction and powers with respect to indictable offences and the trial thereof as fully and amply to all intents and purposes as the Supreme Court of Victoria in like matters and the general principles of practice and procedure observed for the time being in the Supreme Court of Victoria with respect to the trial or determination of indictable offences shall be adopted and applied in the County Court.

S. 36A(3)–(5) inserted by No. 10/1999 s. 27,
repealed by No. 58/2013 s. 43.

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Pt 2 Div. 2
(Heading and ss 37, 38) amended by Nos 7420 s. 2(a)(b), 8263 s. 2(a)–(c), 8291 s. 28(3), 9308 s. 2(a)(b), 9771 s. 31 (as amended by No. 16/1986 s. 11(6)), 9957 s. 3(a)(b), substituted as Pt 2 Div. 2 (Heading and ss 3739) by No. 16/1986 s. 11(4).

Division 2—Civil jurisdiction


No. 6117 s. 37.

S. 37 substituted by No. 16/1986 s. 11(4).



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