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Criminal Code Act 1983
341Separate trials where 2 or more charges against the same
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341 Separate trials where 2 or more charges against the same
person
(1) Where before a trial or at any time during a trial the court is of
opinion that the accused person may be prejudiced or embarrassed
in his defence by reason of his being charged with more than one
offence in the same indictment or that for any other reason it is
desirable to direct that the person should be tried separately for any
offence or offences charged in an indictment the court may order a
separate trial of any count or counts in the indictment.
(1A) Subsection (1) applies in relation to a trial subject to sections 341A
and 341B.
(2) The court may discharge a jury from giving a verdict on the count or
counts directed to be tried separately.
(3) The procedure on the separate trial of a count shall be the same in
all respects as if the count had been set out in a separate
(4) The court may adjourn a separate trial, remand the accused person
and make such orders as to bail and as to the enlargement of
notices to witnesses and otherwise as the court thinks fit.
(5) In this section adjourn includes postpone in a case where the
accused person has not been called upon to plead to the
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