CRIMINAL PROCEDURE,
No. 9 of 1899.
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on behalf of the prosecution, if the accused person has been admitted to bail, that he and his sureties, if any, may be called on their recognizances, and, in default of his appearance, that the same may be estreated.
(2) On any such application the court shall make such order as it may think just.
47. Where any person against whom an indictment has been duly preferred, and who is then at large, does not appear to plead to such indictment, whether he is under recognizance to appear or not, the court may issue a warrant for his apprehension.
48. Outlawry in criminal cases shall be abolished.
Abolition of outlawry.
49. If the accused person is at the time confined for some other cause in any prison, the court or a judge may, by order in writing, without writ of habeas corpus, direct the Superintendent of Prisons to bring up the body of such person, as often as may be required, for the purpose of the trial, and the Superintendent of Prisons shall obey such order.
30 & 31 Vict. c. 35, s. 10.
Arraignment.
50.-(1) The accused person shall be placed at the bar unfettered and not in prison clothes, unless the court sees cause to direct otherwise.
(2) The indictment shall then be read over to him by the Registrar, and explained, if necessary, by the Registrar or the interpreter of the court; and he shall be required to plead instantly thereto, unless he objects to the want of due service of the indictment and notice of trial, and the court finds that he has not been duly served therewith.
51. The accused person, on being arraigned, by pleading generally the plea of not guilty, shall, by such plea, without further form, be deemed to have put himself upon the country for trial.
52. If an accused person, on being arraigned, stands mute of malice or pleads guilty to a charge of murder or other capital offence...
* See also No. 4 of 1901 [Outlawry Abolition].