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Crimes Act 1961

Procedure - Change of venue

325: Powers of substituted court to compel attendance

You could also call this:

“The new court can make people come to it, just like the old court could.”

This part of the law has been removed. It used to be about the powers of a different court to make people attend when the place of a trial was changed. The government took this rule out of the Crimes Act 1961 on 1 July 2013. If you want to know more about why this happened, you can look at section 6 of the Crimes Amendment Act (No 4) 2011.

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Crime and justice > Courts and legal help

324: Attendance of witnesses at substituted court, or

“Witnesses must go to the new court if the trial is moved to a different place”

326: Trial in substituted court, or

“If a trial moves to a different court, it continues there as if it had always been in that court.”

Part 12 Procedure
Change of venue

325Powers of substituted court to compel attendance (Repealed)

Notes

Section 325: repealed, on 1 July 2013, by section 6 of the Crimes Amendment Act (No 4) 2011 (2011 No 85).