311Form and contents of indictments

311 Form and contents of indictments

[Section 311 Amended by No. 74 of 1975, s. 9 ][Section 311 Amended by No. 72 of 1994, s. 5 ][Section 311 Amended by No. 5 of 1996, s. 4 ]

(1)  An indictment shall be intituled "In the Supreme Court of Tasmania", with the addition of the name of the place of trial, and shall contain and be sufficient if it contains a statement of the specific crime or crimes with which the accused person is charged, together with such particulars as may be necessary for giving reasonable information as to the nature of the charge.

(2)  Except as provided in section 125A (6) , charges of more than one crime may be joined in the same indictment, if those charges arise substantially out of the same facts or closely related facts, or are, or form part of, a series of crimes of the same or a similar character. In any other case an indictment shall charge one crime only.

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(4)  The statement of the crime charged in an indictment, or where more than one crime is charged in the same indictment, the statement of each crime, with the particulars thereof, shall be set out in a separate paragraph, called a count.

(5)  Where an indictment contains more than one count the counts shall be numbered consecutively.

(6)  Where there are more counts than one in an indictment each count shall be regarded as a separate indictment.