PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO INDICTABLE OFFENCES
[In this Order "the Act" means the Criminal Procedure Act, 1967 (No 12 of 1967) as amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1999 (No 10 of 1999)]
Summary trial of Indictable Offences
*1. Where an accused person is before the Court charged with an indictable offence with which the Court has jurisdiction to deal summarily if the accused does not object, the Judge shall inform the accused of his or her right to be tried by a jury and if the accused, on being informed by the Court of his or her right to be tried with a jury, does not object to being tried summarily, and the Director of Public Prosecutions consents to the accused being tried summarily for such offence, and if, after hearing such facts as may be alleged in support of the charge the Judge is of opinion that they constitute a minor offence fit to be so tried, the Judge shall take the accused’s plea and try him or her summarily.
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