Queensland Consolidated Regulations

CRIMINAL PRACTICE RULES 1999 - REG 46

46 Procedure on arraignment—Code, s 597C

(1) The proper officer must address the accused person as follows—

(a) for an accused person arraigned alone—

‘AB, you are charged that on [state date] at [state place] you [state charge in the indictment using the second person].

‘AB, how do you plead, guilty or not guilty?’;

(b) for accused persons arraigned together—

‘AB and CD, you are charged that on [state date] at [state place] you [state charge in the indictment using the second person, and repeating the names of each accused person as to anything alleged against the accused person, to the exclusion of any other accused person].

‘AB, how do you plead, guilty or not guilty?

‘CD, how do you plead, guilty or not guilty?’.

(2) The proper officer is taken to have complied with subrule (1) if the proper officer uses other words complying with the requirements of the Code , section 597C .