Acts and Regulations

P-22.1 - Provincial Offences Procedure Act

Section 98
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Jurisdiction to conduct proceedings and try defendant
98(1)Every judge has jurisdiction to conduct proceedings under this Act in relation to any offence committed anywhere within the Province.
98(2)If the judge before whom the information was laid, the judge with whom the notice of prosecution or copy of the violation ticket was filed or the judge by whom the plea of the defendant was taken has not begun to hear evidence, another judge may try the defendant.
2017, c.58, s.16
Jurisdiction to conduct proceedings and try defendant
98(1)Every judge has jurisdiction to conduct proceedings under this Act in relation to any offence committed anywhere within the Province.
98(2)Where the judge
(a) before whom the information was laid or with whom the notice of prosecution was filed, or
(b) by whom the plea of a defendant was taken,
has not begun to hear evidence, any judge may try the defendant.