PART 7STARTING A PROSECUTION IN A MAGISTRATES’ COURT

Allegation of offence in information or charge

7.3.—(1) An allegation of an offence in an information or charge must contain—

(a)a statement of the offence that—

(i)describes the offence in ordinary language, and

(ii)identifies any legislation that creates it; and

(b)such particulars of the conduct constituting the commission of the offence as to make clear what the prosecutor alleges against the defendant.

(2) More than one incident of the commission of the offence may be included in the allegation if those incidents taken together amount to a course of conduct having regard to the time, place or purpose of commission.