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Powers of remand.
11 & 12 Vict. c. 42.
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20.—(1) A court of summary jurisdiction, on being satisfied that a person accused of any offence who has been remanded is by reason of illness or accident unable at the expiration of the period for which he was remanded to appear personally before the court, may, in the absence of the accused person, order him to be further remanded for such time as may be deemed reasonable.
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(2) The period for which a court of summary jurisdiction may remand on bail a person accused of an indictable offence may, if that person and the prosecutor consent, exceed eight days, and accordingly in section twenty-one of the Indictable Offences Act, 1848, after the words “not exceeding” where they first occur in that section, there shall be inserted the words “unless the person remanded and the prosecutor consent.”
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