57APlea of guilty may be made in writing if summons issued

57A Plea of guilty may be made in writing if summons issued (1) A person upon whom is served a summons issued under section 57(2) may plead guilty to the charge specified therein by: (a) completing the endorsement appearing on a copy of the summons; and (b) signing (whether within or without Australia) the endorsement, so completed, before a person entitled to administer an oath in any part of Australia or before a lawyer or member of the police force of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory; and (c) delivering or serving by post, not less than 3 days prior to the date on which he is required by the summons to appear, the copy of the summons so completed and signed to the complainant or the relevant registrar. (2) Service of the copy of the summons duly completed and signed shall be deemed to have been effected under subsection (1) if it is left at the office of the relevant registrar or if it is left at any police station within 80 kilometres of the place at which appearance is required by the summons. (3) A person who has pleaded guilty in the manner prescribed by this section is not required to appear in person or otherwise at the Court before which he is summoned to appear. (4) The Court may accept a plea of guilty made by endorsement as prescribed by this section without proof of any signature thereon or of the office or occupation of any person purporting to have signed the endorsement and, subject to section 57B, may proceed in such manner and make such adjudication and orders as it might have made if the defendant had appeared in answer to the summons in person or by the defendant's legal practitioner.