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Summary Trials Act

An Act to provide for Summary Criminal Trials.

Passed by the Senate and signed by the President on 21 May 2025.

Author: hmquestionable

Sponsored by: Zepz

Article 1: Amendment

§1. The Courtroom Procedures Act 2025 is amended by:

§1.1. Amending Article 11, §1. to read –
    “§1. A summary trial is to be used on request by the Prosecution, and shall be accepted by the Judge if the use of a summary trial would not be against the interests of justice.”
§1.2. Deleting Article 11, §1.1
§1.3. Amending Article 11, §4, to read –
    “§4. Notwithstanding any provision of any law, apart from §1.1. of this Article, the maximum punishment which may be provided through a summary trial for each charge is a three (3) month mute or ban, except for crimes in the First Schedule of the Criminal Code, which shall follow the original time limit stated. If the original crime provision has a lower maximum sentence than 3 months, that lower maximum sentence shall apply.
         §4.1. If the Prosecution proves, to a balance of probabilities, that the accused joined SimDemocracy with malicious intent, and the accused has been within SimDemocracy for less than 30 days on the specific account which the accused is being tried on, the maximum punishment shall be as stated in the Criminal Code, and shall not be limited to 3 months.”
§1.4. Deleting the text “§4.8” from Article 12, §6.
§1.5. Replacing “48” in Article 25, §1, with “72”.

§2. The Criminal Code 2020 is amended by:

§2.1. Inserting the text “Article 51 Terrorist Conspiracy” into the First Schedule.

Article 2: Application

§1. To the maximum extent permissible by law, this Act shall apply to all trials, including those which have started before the passage of this Act.

§2. This Act comes into effect immediately upon passage.

Explanatory Notes

This bill allows for summary trials to be used more frequently instead of normal trials. It also fixes an evidentiary objection.

Section 1.1 changes summary trials to be used upon request by the prosecution, instead of by mutual request.

Section 1.2 deletes an article which is no longer relevant due to Section 1.1.

Section 1.3 edits the maximum sentence time to replace the section deleted by Section 1.2. It also excludes offences in the First Schedule of the Criminal Code (offences of a more serious nature) from being limited in the sentence length.

Section 1.4 repairs an evidentiary objection caused by expert witnesses, due to expert witnesses being unable to be objected to on the grounds of incompetence. It is unrelated to the rest of this Act.

Section 1.5 replaces the 48 hour CC timeline to 72 hours.

Section 2 inserts Terrorist Conspiracy into the First Schedule of the Criminal Code.