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344B: Attendance at identification parade voluntary
or “You can choose if you want to be in a line-up to help identify someone, and no one can force you to do it.”
You could also call this:

“The court must tell the accused person about the witness who can identify them”

This part of the law used to be about giving information to a defendant about a witness who identified them. However, this section was removed from the law on 1 July 2013. It is no longer in effect. If you want to know more about identification evidence in criminal cases, you might need to look at other parts of the Crimes Act 1961 or ask a lawyer for help.

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Next up: 344D: Jury to be warned where principal evidence relates to identification

or “The judge must tell the jury to be careful when the main proof is about recognising someone.”
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Part 12 Procedure
Identification evidence

344CInformation relating to identification witness to be supplied to defendant (Repealed)

    Notes
    • Section 344C: repealed, on , by section 6 of the Crimes Amendment Act (No 4) 2011 (2011 No 85).