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Adjournment of trials on account of intimidation of jurors or witnesses.
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8.—(1) Whenever and as often (but not more than twice in respect of any one trial) as a Judge presiding in the Central Criminal Court or a Judge of the Circuit Court sitting for the trial of criminal issues is satisfied that, by reason of intimidation or attempted intimidation of jurors or witnesses either in relation to the trial of criminal issues generally or of any class of criminal issues or in relation to the trial of a particular person or the intimidation or attempted intimidation of particular jurors or witnesses it is not desirable that the trial or trials of one or more accused persons awaiting trial before him should be had at the sittings of the Central Criminal Court or the Circuit Court (as the case may be) then in progress, such Judge may adjourn the trial or trials of such accused person or persons until the next following sittings of such Court or, in the case of the Circuit Court, to the next following sittings of such Court for the trial of criminal issues in that county or county borough.
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(2) Whenever the trial of an accused person is adjourned under this section such accused person shall for all purposes be deemed to have been returned for trial at the sittings to which his trial is so adjourned and may accordingly, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any statute in force in Saorstát Eireann, be detained in custody as if he had been returned for trial at such sittings.
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