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CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 289

289—Postponement of trial

        (1)         No person is entitled to traverse or postpone the trial of any information presented against him in any court of criminal jurisdiction but, if the court is of the opinion that any trial should, for any reason, be adjourned, it may adjourn it to any day during the current sessions, or to the next sessions, on such terms as to bail or otherwise as it thinks fit, and may respite the recognizances of the prosecutor and witnesses accordingly, in which case the prosecutor and witnesses shall be bound to attend on the day to which the trial has been adjourned without entering into any fresh recognizances for that purpose.

        (2)         Nothing in this section extends to any prosecution by information in the nature of a quo warranto .



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