New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 1986 - SECT 152

152 Arraignment on charge of previous conviction

(1) An accused person is not to be arraigned for any previous conviction charged in an indictment unless he or she is convicted of a subsequent offence charged in the indictment.

(2) On the accused person's conviction of the subsequent offence--

(a) the accused person is to be arraigned, and

(b) the jury is to be charged, and

(c) the trial is to proceed,

in relation to the previous conviction.

(3) In the trial for the subsequent offence, evidence of the previous conviction may not be admitted, except in reply to evidence of character, unless the accused person is convicted of the subsequent offence.