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Act index » Schedule 1 - Charges on a charge-sheet or indictment (Sections 6(3), 159(3))
5 Joinder of charges
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(1)A charge-sheet or indictment may contain charges for related offences, whether against the same accused or different accused.
(2)If more than one offence is charged in a charge-sheet or indictment, the particulars of each offence charged must be set out in a separate, consecutively numbered paragraph.
(3)A charge-sheet or indictment may contain, as an alternative charge to a course of conduct charge, a charge of a relevant offence of the kind covered by the course of conduct charge and alleged to have been committed within the period to which the course of conduct charge relates.
(4)In the circumstances set out in subclause (3), for the purposes of section 220 an acquittal on the course of conduct charge does not constitute a previous acquittal in relation to the alternative charge.
(5)A charge-sheet or indictment must not contain both a course of conduct charge and a charge for an offence against section 49J of the Crimes Act 1958.
(6)In this clause, course of conduct charge has the same meaning as in clause 4A.