Queensland Consolidated Regulations

CRIMINAL PRACTICE RULES 1999 - REG 51

51 Addressing a convicted person before sentencing—Code, s 648

(1) If the plea or verdict is guilty, the proper officer must address the convicted person as follows—

‘AB, you have been convicted [for a plea of guilty say ‘on your own plea of guilty’] of [state the offence charged in the words of the indictment or by stating the heading of the schedule form for the offence]. Do you have anything to say as to why sentence should not be passed on you?’.

(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 648 .