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No. 17 of 1919.
INDICTMENTS.
Savings and interpretation.
5 & 6 Geo. 5, c. 90, s. 8.
(a) if such an order is made during a trial the court may order that the jury are to be discharged from giving a verdict on the count or counts the trial of which is postponed or on the indictment, as the case may be; and
(b) the procedure on the separate trial of a count shall be the same in all respects as if the count had been found in a separate indictment, and the procedure on the postponed trial shall be the same in all respects (if the jury has been discharged) as if the trial had not commenced; and
(c) the court may make such order as to admitting the accused person to bail and as to the enlargement of recognizances and otherwise as the court thinks fit.
(6) Any power of the court under this section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any other power of the court for the same or similar purposes.
7.-(1) Nothing in this Ordinance or the rules thereunder shall affect the law or practice relating to the jurisdiction of a court or the place where an accused person can be tried, nor prejudice or diminish in any respect the obligation to establish by evidence according to law any acts, omissions or intentions which are legally necessary to constitute the offence with which the person accused is charged; nor otherwise affect the laws of evidence in criminal cases.
"the court" means the court before which any indictable offence is tried or prosecuted.
(2) In this Ordinance,
SCHEDULE.
[s. 2.]
Mode in which offences are to be charged.
RULES.
1.-(1) A description of the offence charged in an indictment, or where more than one offence is charged in an indictment, of each offence so charged, shall be set out in the indictment in a separate paragraph called a count.
(2) A count of an indictment shall commence with a statement of the offence charged, called the statement of offence.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.