JUSTICES ACT 1959 - SECT 74B Procedure on adjournment
JUSTICES ACT 1959 - SECT 74B
Procedure on adjournment
(1) 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) . . . . . . . .(3) . . . . . . . .(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.