Contraventions Act

Marginal note:Election of Crown

• 50 (1) Where a proceeding in respect of a contravention is commenced by laying an information, the Attorney General may elect that the proceeding be dealt with and disposed of as if it had been commenced by filing a ticket.

• Marginal note:Effect of election

  (2) Where the Attorney General makes an election, this Act applies as if the defendant were served with a ticket on the day on which the defendant is notified of the election, even if that day is more than thirty days after the day on which the contravention was committed.

• Marginal note:Notice of election

  (3) As soon as practicable, the clerk of the court shall notify the defendant of the election.

• Marginal note:Contents of notice

  (4) A notice of election must have the contents required of a ticket by section 16 and state that, where a defendant entered into, was issued or was given, as the case may be, an undertaking, release order, summons or appearance notice, the requirement to attend court in accordance with a summons, appearance notice, undertaking or release order, the conditions in the undertaking or release order and the obligation to appear, for the purposes of the Identification of Criminals Act, as required by the summons, appearance notice or undertaking, as the case may be, cease to have effect.

• Marginal note:Cessation of effect — conditions and obligations

  (5) The requirement to attend court in accordance with a summons, appearance notice, undertaking or release order, the conditions in an undertaking or release order and the obligation to appear, for the purposes of the Identification of Criminals Act, as required by a summons, appearance notice or undertaking, as the case may be, that was entered into by, issued to or given to a defendant, cease to have effect on the defendant’s being notified of the election.