Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences) Act 2023

Power of adjournment and remand

36. (1) The appropriate court may, if it considers it appropriate to do so in the interests of justice, adjourn any proceedings under this Part either on application or of its own motion, and shall, subject to subsection (2), remand the person concerned in custody for the period of the adjournment or such other period as it considers appropriate.

(2) A person arrested under a warrant issued under section 35 (1) may be remanded in custody or on bail.

(3) For the purposes of this section, the appropriate court shall have and may exercise the same powers of remand in relation to any person appearing before it under this Part as it would have if the person were brought before it charged with an indictable offence.