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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.