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JUSTICES ACT 1902 - SECT 25 Issue of warrant where indictment filed

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JUSTICES ACT 1902 - SECT 25

Issue of warrant where indictment filed

25 Issue of warrant where indictment filed

(1) Where an indictment has been filed in the Supreme Court or the District Court against any person then at large, the proper officer at such Court shall at any time during the sittings of such Court if the person so indicted fails to appear and plead to such indictment, upon application by or on behalf of the prosecutor, grant to the prosecutor or person applying on his or her behalf a certificate that such indictment has been filed.
(2) Upon production of such certificate to any Justice such Justice shall:
(a) in every case where the person so indicted is, at the time of the application for the said certificate and of such production thereof, confined in a correctional centre for any other offence than that charged in the said indictment, upon proof upon oath that the person so confined in a correctional centre is the person charged and named in such indictment, issue his or her warrant directed to the gaoler of the correctional centre in which such person is so confined, commanding the gaoler to detain such person in his or her custody until, by His Majesty's writ of habeas corpus, the person is removed therefrom for the purpose of being tried upon the said indictment, or until the person is otherwise removed or discharged out of custody by due course of law,
(b) in other cases issue his or her warrant to apprehend the person so indicted, and to cause the person to be brought before the Justice or any other Justice to be dealt with according to law, and that Justice or any other Justice, when any person apprehended under such warrant is brought before the Justice, shall, upon proof upon oath that such person is the person charged and named in such indictment, and without further inquiry, commit the person for trial.