Western Australian Current Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 2004 - SECT 134

134 .         Separate prosecutions may be dealt with together

        (1)         A court may order that 2 or more charges against one accused that are contained in 2 or more separate prosecution notices or indictments be tried together if —

            (a)         the prosecutor consents; and

            (b)         the court has jurisdiction to deal with all of the charges; and

            (c)         the court is satisfied that it is in the interests of justice to do so.

        (2)         A court may amend or cancel such an order.

        (3)         This section does not permit the trial of a simple offence by a jury.