Criminal Procedure Amendment Act 64 of 1982

The Criminal Procedure Amendment Act 64 of 1982 intends:

• to amend the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977, so as to make provisionfor the taking of photographs of persons arrested upon any charge, released on bail or on warning or convicted of any offence or against whom a preparatory examination has been concluded on any charge;
• to further regulate the deposit by an accused of bail money with a police official at the place where the accused is in custody;
• to extend 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 permit assessors at criminal trials in superior courts to take part in decisions upon the admissibility of certain evidence;
• to make provision that an accused may be found guilty of the offence of malicious injury to property if the evidence on a charge of housebreaking with intent to commit an offence specified in the charge proves the first-named but not the last-named offence;
• to limit the circumstances under which a court may order that a person convicted of any of certain offences be detained at a rehabilitation centre;
• to make further provision in connection with the compounding of certain offences; and
• to provide for matters connected therewith.

Commencement

21 April 1982