Title: Juries (Prejudicial Publicity) AmendmentBill 2014
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Category: parliamentary.copy
Document comments: ha38

House of Assembly—No 38
As laid on the table and read a first time, 15 October 2014

Juries (Prejudicial Publicity) Amendment Bill 2014

Juries (Prejudicial Publicity) Amendment Bill 2014
Part 1—Preliminary

Juries (Prejudicial Publicity) Amendment Bill 2014
Preliminary—Part 1

Juries (Prejudicial Publicity) Amendment Bill 2014
Part 2—Amendment of Juries Act 1927

Juries (Prejudicial Publicity) Amendment Bill 2014
Amendment of Juries Act 1927—Part 2

South Australia
Juries (Prejudicial Publicity) Amendment Bill 2014
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Juries Act 1927.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Commencement
3	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Juries Act 1927
4	Amendment of section 7—Trial without jury

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Juries (Prejudicial Publicity) Amendment Act 2014.
2—Commencement
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.
3—Amendment provisions
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Juries Act 1927
4—Amendment of section 7—Trial without jury
	(1)	Section 7—after subsection (3c) insert:
	(3ca)	Where, in a criminal trial before the Supreme Court or the District Court, an accused applies for a stay of proceedings on the basis that publicity has prevented, or may prevent, the accused from receiving a fair trial, the court may, at any time, if it considers it necessary in order to ensure a fair trial, order that the accused be tried by judge alone.
	(3cb)	A court may make an order under subsection (3ca) whether or not—
	(a)	a jury has been constituted in accordance with this Act to try the issues on the trial; or
	(b)	in a trial in which 2 or more people are jointly charged, the court also makes an order under that subsection in respect of the remaining accused.
	(3cc)	Nothing in subsection (3ca) affects the powers of a court to punish a person for contempt of that court.
	(2)	Section 7(3d)—after "subsection (3a)" insert:
or (3ca)

HA GP 376-B OPC 44