Criminal Procedure Act 1986
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180 Relationship to other law or practice
180 Relationship to other law or practice
(1) Nothing in this Part affects any law or practice relating to indictments presented or filed in the Supreme Court or the District Court by the Attorney General or the Director of Public Prosecutions.
(2) If an Act or a statutory rule provides for proceedings for an offence which may be taken in a court to be commenced otherwise than by issuing a court attendance notice, the proceedings may be commenced in accordance with this Act.
(3) Nothing in this Part affects the operation of the provisions of the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007 relating to the commencement of proceedings under that Act.
s 180: Ins 2001 No 119, Sch 1 [82]. Am 2008 No 114, Sch 2.8 [1] [2].