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Section 298 - Criminal Code Act 1983 - Nature of indictments — Zoe

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Criminal Code Act 1983

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298 Nature of indictments (1) When a person charged with an indictable offence has been committed for trial and it is intended to put him on his trial for the offence the charge is to be reduced to writing in a document that is called an indictment. (2) The indictment is to be signed by a Crown Law Officer.

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