Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132:section:15ma
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 15MA
Character Range: 710570–711699

15MA  Meaning of criminal proceeding
 (1) In this Part, criminal proceeding means a proceeding for the prosecution, whether summarily or on indictment, of an offence or offences.
 (2) To avoid doubt, each of the following is part of a criminal proceeding:
 (a) a bail proceeding;
 (b) a committal proceeding;
 (c) the discovery, exchange, production, inspection or disclosure of intended evidence, documents and reports of persons intended to be called by a party to give evidence;
 (d) a sentencing proceeding;
 (e) an appeal proceeding;
 (f) a proceeding with respect to any matter in which a person seeks a writ of mandamus or prohibition or an injunction against an officer or officers of the Commonwealth (within the meaning of subsection 39B(1B) of the Judiciary Act 1903) in relation to:
 (i) a decision to prosecute a person for one or more offences against a law of the Commonwealth; or
 (ii) a related criminal justice process decision (within the meaning of subsection 39B(3) of that Act);
 (g) any other pre‑trial, interlocutory or post‑trial proceeding prescribed by regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.