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Section 159 — When criminal case disclosure procedures apply

As in force on 14 February 2025.

Timeline 5 versions
  1. 2 January 2011 Enacted
  2. 17 September 2018 Act 19 of 2018
  3. 31 December 2021 Revised edition
  4. 14 February 2025 Act 5 of 2024
  5. 17 August 2026 Latest
Amended in force 14 February 2025 by Criminal Procedure (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2024
159.When criminal case disclosure procedures apply

(1) Subject to subsection (2), theThe criminal case disclosure procedures apply to an offence which ––

(a)is specified in the Second Schedule; and

(b)is to be tried in a District Court.

(2)The criminal case disclosure procedures do not apply if the defence, on or before the date of the first criminal case disclosure conference fixed by a court under section 161(1), or such other date to which the first criminal case disclosure conference is adjourned under section 238, informs the court that the accused does not wish to have the criminal case disclosure procedures apply.

(2)[Deleted by Act 5 of 2024 wef 14/02/2025]

(3)For any offence other than an offence mentioned in subsection (1), the criminal case disclosure procedures do not apply unless all parties consent to have the procedures apply.