The purposes of this Act are—
(a) to clarify, simplify and consolidate the laws relating to criminal procedure in the Magistrates' Court, the County Court and the Supreme Court;
(b) to introduce a new procedure permitting the service of a notice to appear in the Magistrates' Court;
(c) to provide new pre-trial disclosure requirements for the prosecution;
(d) to provide for a 6-month time limit for the filing of charges for summary offences in the Children's Court;
(e) to provide for the transfer to the County Court or Supreme Court of summary offences related to an offence to be tried on indictment by the relevant court;
(f) to abolish the procedure of indictment by grand jury;
(g) to provide for interlocutory appeals in criminal proceedings in the County Court and the Supreme Court;
(h) to clarify the tests relating to determination of appeals by the Court of Appeal;
(i) to provide for the stay of sentences on appeal;
(j) to amend the Sentencing Act 1991 to provide for a maximum fine that may be imposed for an indictable offence that is heard and determined summarily;
(k) to amend the Crimes Act 1958 , the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act 1997 , the Magistrates' Court Act 1989 , the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 and the Appeal Costs Act 1998 ;
(l) to repeal the Crimes (Criminal Trials) Act 1999 ;
(m) to make consequential and other amendments.