CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
PART I
BUSINESS OF THE COURT.
No. 9 of 1899.
885
4. The Registrar shall ex officio be Master of the Crown Office.
5.--(1) The ordinary session for the despatch of the business of the court shall commence on the 18th day of every month or, if that day is a dies non, then on the lawful day next following:
Provided always that the Chief Justice may, at any time, on due notice thereof being given, change the day so appointed:
Provided further that the Chief Justice may, at any time, on due notice thereof being given, order that no session shall be held in such month or months as he shall specify in such order.
6. The Superintendent of Prisons shall, by himself or his deputy, be in attendance at each session of the court, and shall bring each prisoner awaiting trial before the court when his case is called for trial, and during the continuance of the trial shall have him under his charge and custody, and remand him to prison, by permission or order of the court, during the progress of the trial or on any adjournment thereof.
7.(1) The Superintendent of Prisons shall, by himself or his deputy, on the first day of every session of the court, deliver in open court to the presiding judge a correct list of all persons in his custody upon any charges of indictable offences who have not been then tried, or upon whom sentence has not been then passed, or who have been committed in default of sureties to keep the peace or otherwise, distinguishing, as accurately as may be, their names, ages, and sexes, with the dates of their respective commitments and the authority under which they were respectively committed.
(2) He shall also, by himself or his deputy, bring and produce in open court, on such days and times of such session as the court may direct, all such persons in his custody as aforesaid as the court may direct him so to bring and produce.
*As amended by No. 27 of 1913 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.