Title: Juries (Prejudicial Publicity) AmendmentBill 2015
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Last saved by: Mrs Sandra Flintoft-Silk
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House of Assembly—No 3
As laid on the table and read a first time, 11 February 2015

Juries (Prejudicial Publicity) Amendment Bill 2015
Contents

Juries (Prejudicial Publicity) Amendment Bill 2015

Juries (Prejudicial Publicity) Amendment Bill 2015
Part 1—Preliminary

Juries (Prejudicial Publicity) Amendment Bill 2015
Preliminary—Part 1

Juries (Prejudicial Publicity) Amendment Bill 2015
Part 2—Amendment of Juries Act 1927

Juries (Prejudicial Publicity) Amendment Bill 2015
Amendment of Juries Act 1927—Part 2

South Australia
Juries (Prejudicial Publicity) Amendment Bill 2015
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 2015.
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)

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