This legislation has been repealed.
(1) As soon as practicable after determining that criminal proceedings are ready to proceed on the part of the Crown, the DPP must give to the Director a notice of readiness for the proceedings.
(2) The notice must be in the form approved for the time being by the Director and must be accompanied by a draft of the indictment proposed to be presented in the proceedings.
(3) As soon as practicable after receiving the notice, the Director:(a) must give a copy of the notice, and of the draft indictment which accompanies the notice, to the registrar, and(b) must give a copy of the draft indictment to each accused person or the accused person's solicitor.
(4) As soon as practicable after determining that the indictment to be presented in any criminal proceedings is to depart in any material particular from the draft indictment that accompanied the notice of readiness for the proceedings, the DPP must give to the Director a draft of the indictment then proposed to be presented in the proceedings.
(5) The later draft must contain a notice, in the form approved for the time being by the Director, indicating the nature and extent of the departures from the earlier draft.
(6) As soon as practicable after receiving a draft indictment under subclause (4), the Director must give a copy of the draft indictment to the registrar and to each accused person or the accused person's solicitor.