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Criminal Procedure Act 1986
157Change to guilty plea during trial
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157 Change to guilty plea during trial
157 Change to guilty plea during trial
(1) If an accused person pleads “guilty” to an offence at any time after having been given into the charge of a jury, and the court accepts the plea, the court is to discharge the jury from giving a verdict in the matter and to find the accused person guilty of the offence.
(2) The finding has effect as if it were the verdict of the jury, and the accused person is liable to punishment accordingly.
ss 152–157 (previously ss 86–91): Renumbered 2001 No 119, Sch 1 [68].