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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 2009 - SECT 454A

Transitional provision—COVID-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Act 2020

    (1)     Despite the repeal of Chapter 9, a trial by judge alone in which judgment was not delivered before that repeal may continue to be so held by judge alone, without a jury, after that repeal.

    (2)     For the purposes of a trial that continues in accordance with subsection (1), Chapter 9 continues to have effect despite its repeal.

    (3)     On and after the repeal of Chapter 9, Chapter 6 applies to an appeal that relates to a trial by judge alone in the same way that it applies to an appeal that relates to a trial by jury.

    (4)     On and after the repeal of section 420E, a verdict of a trial judge on a trial by judge alone has, for all purposes, the same effect as a verdict of a jury.

    (5)     Subsection (4) has effect despite the repeal of section 420E.

    (6)     In this section—

"trial by judge alone" means a trial held in accordance with an order under section 420D as in force immediately before its repeal.

S. 454B inserted by No. 11/2020 s. 33.



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