Section 9: Crime reduced to misdemeanour
consolidated text (as at 2011, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
9. Crime reduced to misdemeanour
Where a preliminary inquiry has been held pursuant to Part II of the District
and Intermediate Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act, the Director of Public
Prosecutions may, after examining the depositions, reduce a charge of crime
to a misdemeanour, and file an information before the Supreme Court or
before any other Court having jurisdiction over such misdemeanours.
[S. 9 amended by s. 3 (b) of Act 18 of 2011 w.e.f. 9 July 2011.]