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Crimes Act 1900
260What defects do not vitiate indictment
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260 What defects do not vitiate indictment
No indictment shall be held bad or insufficient for want of an
averment of any matter unnecessary to be proved, or necessarily
implied, nor for the omission of the words ‘as appears by the record’,
or ‘with force and arms’, or ‘against the peace’, nor for the insertion
or omission of the words ‘against the form of the statute’, nor for
designating any person by a name of office, or other descriptive
appellation, instead of his or her proper name, nor for omitting to state
the time when the offence was committed, nor for stating the time
wrongly, if time is not of the essence of the offence, nor for stating
the time imperfectly, nor for stating the offence to have been
committed on a day subsequent to the finding of the indictment, or on
an impossible day, or a day that never happened, nor for want of a
proper or perfect venue, or a proper or formal conclusion, nor for want
of or imperfection in any addition of the accused, nor for want of any
statement of the value or price of any matter or thing, or the amount
of damage, or injury, in any case if such value, or price, or amount, is
not of the essence of the offence.