Public Safety (Emergency Powers) Act, 1923

Change of venue in criminal cases.

12.—(1) Where an indictment for a crime committed at any place in Saorstát Eireann has been found against any person, or any person has been committed for trial for such crime, the High Court on an application by or on behalf of the Attorney-General of Saorstát Eireann and upon his Certificate that he believes that a more fair and impartial trial can be had at a court and in a county to be named in such Certificate, shall make an order as of course that the trial shall be had at the court and in the county named in the Certificate.

(2) Whenever an order for the removal of the trial of a crime is made under this section before the indictment has been found, such crime may be inquired into by a grand jury of, and the trial thereof may be had in, the county named in the order of removal in like manner as if the crime had been committed in such county.

(3) Whenever an order for the removal of the trial of a crime is made under this section after the indictment has been found, such trial may be had as if the indictment had been found in the court to which the trial is removed.