171Criminal procedure rules

171 Criminal procedure rules

171 Criminal procedure rules

(1) The Rule Committee may make rules, not inconsistent with this Act or any other Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed for the purposes of, or in connection with, the exercise by the Court of its criminal jurisdiction or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Part and Division 3 of Part 2 or any Act under or by virtue of which rules under this Part apply, and in particular for or with respect to providing for the procedure and practice to be followed in the Court in all proceedings in which, and with respect to which, the Court has for the time being criminal jurisdiction and regulating or providing for any matters incidental to, or relating to, any such procedure or practice.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), rules may be made under that subsection for or with respect to any of the following—

(a) prescribing the duties and functions of Judicial Registrars, other registrars and other officers of the Court and the records to be kept by them in relation to or for the purposes of any proceedings,

(b) conferring on a registrar in particular proceedings power, subject to the rules, to issue on behalf of a defendant or an appellant in those proceedings—

(i) a subpoena requiring a person specified in the subpoena to attend and give evidence in the proceedings, or

(ii) a subpoena requiring a person specified in the subpoena to attend and produce, for the purpose of evidence, in the proceedings any document or thing that is in the possession or under the control of that person,

(c) providing for the sittings of the Court and the regulation of business at those sittings,

(d) prescribing and providing for the places at which particular proceedings may be held and, subject to any enactment or rule of law which confers powers on the Attorney General with respect to the venue or changes of venue of proceedings, providing for the venue of proceedings to be changed and prescribing the circumstances in which, and the conditions subject to which, any such change may be made,

(e) providing for the vacations and holidays of the Court and the hearing and disposal of proceedings during any such vacations or holidays,

(f) providing for all procedural matters relating to or incidental to the indictment and arraignment of an accused person, including motions to quash or stay indictments,