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410: Regulations
or “Rules that explain how to follow and use the law”
You could also call this:

“Changes are made to other laws to make sure they match this new law.”

The law says that some changes need to be made to other laws because of this one. You can find a list of these changes in Schedule 3.

When you see words in other laws that talk about ‘bills of indictment’, ‘preferring or filing a bill of indictment’, or ‘filing or finding an indictment by the grand jury’, you should think of them differently now. Instead of those old terms, you should now think of them as meaning a ‘charging document’. This is a paper that tells someone they’re being charged with a crime.

If you see mentions of filing these old documents with a grand jury, you should now think of it as filing a charging document in the District Court. Any time you see the words ‘indictment found’, you should think of it as a charging document that has been filed with the court.

These changes in wording help to make sure that the old laws still make sense with the new way of doing things.

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Part 14 Miscellaneous provisions

411Consequential amendments

  1. The enactments specified in Schedule 3 are hereby amended in the manner indicated in that schedule.

  2. Repealed

  3. Every reference in any enactment to a bill of indictment, or to the preferring or filing of a bill of indictment before the grand jury, or to the filing or finding of an indictment by the grand jury, or to an indictment found, or any other similar expression, shall be read as a reference to a charging document or, as the case may require, to the filing of a charging document in the District Court, or to a charging document filed.

Notes
  • Section 411(2): repealed, on , by section 5 of the Crimes Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 27).
  • Section 411(3): amended, on , by section 6 of the Crimes Amendment Act (No 4) 2011 (2011 No 85).
  • Section 411(3): amended, on , by section 4(1) of the Crimes Amendment Act (No 2) 1995 (1995 No 68).