(1) Each count of an indictment shall contain, and it is sufficient if it contains in substance, a statement that the accused person has committed an offence specified in the count.
(2) The statement may be made in ordinary language without any technical averments or any allegations of matter not essential to be proved.
(3) The statement may be in the words of the enactment describing the offence or declaring the matter charged to be an indictable offence, or in words sufficient to give the accused notice of the offence with which he or she is charged.
(4) Each count shall contain so much detail of the circumstances of the alleged offence as is sufficient to give the accused reasonable information as to the act to be proved against him or her, and to identify the transaction referred to in the count.
(5) The absence or insufficiency of such details shall not vitiate the count, but the Court may order an amendment or further particulars, mentioned.
(6) A count shall refer to the section of any enactment creating the offence charged, and, in estimating the sufficiency of such count, the Court may have regard to such reference.
(7) The omission of, or any mistake in the reference, shall not vitiate the count, but the reference may be supplied or corrected at any time.
(8) Each count shall, in general, apply only to a single transaction.
(9) Where any of the particulars referred to in this section are unknown to the prosecutor, it is sufficient to state that fact in the indictment.