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Stevedoring Industry Charge Assessment Act 1947
45Defendant to have right of trial in Supreme Court
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45 Defendant to have right of trial in Supreme Court
In a prosecution instituted in a court other than a Supreme Court, where the penalty exceeds $500 and the excess is not abandoned, the defendant, within 7 days after service of process, may elect in the prescribed manner to have the case tried in the Supreme Court of the State or Territory in which the prosecution has been instituted, and thereupon the prosecution shall stand removed to that Supreme Court and shall be conducted as if it had been originally instituted in that Supreme Court.