74BProcedure on adjournment

74B Procedure on adjournment

[Section 74B Inserted by No. 108 of 1974, s. 23 ]

(1)  [Section 74B Subsection (1) substituted by No. 2 of 2022, Sched. 1, Applied:18 Mar 2022] If for any reason a complaint is not heard and determined on the day on which the defendant is first brought before a court of summary jurisdiction in respect of it and an adjournment is ordered, the court may –

(a) remand the defendant in custody; or

(b) admit the defendant to bail; or

(c) if the defendant appeared before the court in accordance with his or her bail, continue that bail (with or without a variation to the conditions of that bail) to the time at, and the day and place to, which the proceedings are adjourned; or

(d) order the defendant to appear before the court at the time, on the day and at the place to which the proceedings are adjourned.

(2)  [Section 74B Subsection (2) amended by No. 45 of 1986, s. 17 ][Section 74B Subsection (2) omitted by No. 2 of 2022, Sched. 1, Applied:18 Mar 2022] .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(3)  [Section 74B Subsection (3) substituted by No. 45 of 1986, s. 17 ][Section 74B Subsection (3) substituted by No. 57 of 1987, s. 7 ][Section 74B Subsection (3) omitted by No. 34 of 1989, s. 9 ].  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(4)  An order under subsection (1) (c) has the same effect as a summons in similar terms.

(5)  The provisions of this section apply in respect of any adjournment of the proceedings on a complaint of a simple offence.