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Ordinance
No. 9 of 1899.
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
(b) where the accused person is on bail, the magistrate shall issue a summons for his attendance at the time and place when and where such proceedings are to be held; and
(c) thereafter the proceedings shall be continued under the provisions of Part III or of Part IV of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, as the case may be, No. 3 of 1890.
Power to the court or judge to bail accused person.
Institution of Bail.
15. The court or a judge may at any time, on the application of any accused person, order such person, whether he has been committed for trial or not, to be admitted to bail, and the recognizance of bail may, if the order so directs, be taken before any magistrate or justice of the peace.
Institution of proceedings.
16. On receipt of the documents relating to the case, the Attorney General, if he sees fit to institute criminal proceedings, shall institute such proceedings in the court against the accused person as to him may seem legal and proper.
Right of Attorney General not to prosecute.
17.—(1) The Attorney General shall not be bound to prosecute an accused person in any case in which he may be of opinion that the interests of public justice do not require his interference.
Procedure in case Attorney General declines to file an indictment.
Schedule. Forms Nos. 1, 2,
Signing and form of indictment.
(2) Whenever the Attorney General declines to file an indictment against any person committed to prison for trial for any indictable offence he may issue a warrant in Form No. 1 in the Schedule to the Registrar, who shall thereupon by order under his hand and the seal of the court, in Form No. 2 in the Schedule, direct the person in whose custody the prisoner may be immediately to discharge him without any fee from imprisonment in respect of the offence mentioned in such order.
Indictment.
18.—(1) Every indictment shall be signed by the Attorney General, and shall bear date on the day when it is signed.
(2) Every indictment may be in Form No. 3 in the Schedule with such additions and modifications as may be necessary to adapt it to the circumstances of the particular case.
[s. 19, rep. No. 17 of 1919.]
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