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56 of 1979
The Criminal Procedure Amendment Act 56 of 1979 intends:
- to amend the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977,
- to provide for the issuing of warrants for the further detention of certain persons;
- to make further provision for the designation of a court as a court of summary trial;
- to provide for the committal of accused to regional courts for trial;
- to include an accused released on bail or on warning in the category of accused who may be called upon to plead in a magistrate's court in a trial intended for a superior court;
- to extend the powers of attorneys general with regard to a plea ina magistrate's court on a charge Justiciable in a superior court;
- to provide for persons to plead in magistrates' courts on charges to be adjudicated in regional courts;
- to make it an offence for an accused released on warning to fail to appear at adjourned proceedings;
- to make further provision for the proof of certain facts by means of affidavits and for the admissibility of confessions and admissions;
- to increase the awards that regional courts and magistrates' courts may make by way of compensation for damage or loss caused by an offence;
- to extend certain bail provisions to bail pending review;
- to redefine ''local authority" in Schedule 3; and
- to effect certain textual alterations; and
- to provide for incidental matters.
Commencement
1 June 1979
