Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 565

565 General rules applicable to indictments

The following rules are applicable to all indictments—

(a) any document or other thing may be described by any name or designation by which it is usually known, and any document may be described by its purport without setting out a copy or facsimile of the whole or any part of it;

(b) a trademark may be described by that name, and any other mark may be described in any way which will indicate its nature, without setting out a copy or facsimile of it;

(c) it is not necessary to set forth the value of anything mentioned in an indictment unless the value is an essential element of the offence;

(d) it is not necessary to set forth the means or instrument by which any act is done, unless the means or instrument are an essential element of the offence;

(e) it is not necessary to set forth any particulars as to any person or thing which need not be proved, nor any other matter which need not be proved.