New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 1986 - SECT 40

40 Adjournments generally

(1) A court may at any stage of criminal proceedings adjourn the proceedings generally, or to a specified day, if it appears to the court necessary or advisable to do so.

(2) An adjournment may be in such terms as the court thinks fit.

(3) A matter that is adjourned generally must be listed before the court or a registrar not later than 2 years after the adjournment.

(4) Without limiting subsection (1), a court may, at the request of an accused person, adjourn criminal proceedings if it appears to the court that a variance between any process or document by which the proceedings were commenced and the evidence adduced in respect of the offence charged in that process or document is such that the accused person has been misled by the variance.