Courts (No. 2) Act, 1986
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Amendement of Criminal Procedure Act 1967. |
8.—(1) Where under Part II of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1967 , a preliminary examination of an indictable offence is being conducted by a particular justice of the District Court and, owing to the illness of that justice or for any other reason, is continued by another justice, a deposition or statement taken or signed by the former may for the purposes of that Act be treated by the latter as if it had been taken or signed by him. | |
(2) The Criminal Procedure Act, 1967 , is hereby amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (5) of section 24: | ||
“(5) (a) Where there is no sitting of the Court on the day to which a person is remanded in custody, he shall stand so remanded to the sitting of the Court next held in the same district court district. | ||
(b) Where there is no sitting of the Court on the day to which a person is remanded on bail, he shall stand so remanded to the sitting of the Court next held in the same district court area.” |