Criminal Procedure.
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28. (1) The Registrar shall indorse on or annex to every indictment and every copy thereof delivered for service a notice of trial, and such notice shall specify the particular session at which the accused person will be brought to trial on the indictment and the date of the commencement thereof.
(2) The notice may be in Form 4 in the First Schedule or as near thereto as circumstances will admit.
[29. The Registrar shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the bailiff, for service on the accused person, a copy of the indictment, with the notice of trial indorsed on the same or annexed thereto; and, if there are more accused persons than one, then as many copies as there are persons. The Registrar shall also deliver or cause to be delivered to the bailiff another copy for the information of the Commissioner of Prisons.]
30. (1) The bailiff shall, as soon as may be after having received the same, deliver to a gaoler the copy and notice for the information of the Commissioner of Prisons and to the accused himself the copy and notice for service on the accused.
(2) In any case where the accused person cannot be found, the bailiff shall leave the said copy and notice with some one of his household for him at his dwelling-house, or with some one of his clerks for him at his counting-house or place of business, and, if none such can be found, shall affix the said copy and notice to the outer or principal door of his dwelling-house.
(3) The bailiff shall, at the time of service, explain to the accused person, or to the person, if any, with whom the said copy and notice are left, the nature and exigency thereof.
31. The bailiff shall forthwith transmit to the Registrar a return in writing, signed by him, of the time and mode of service of the said copy and notice.
32. In any plea of autrefois convict or autrefois acquit it shall be sufficient for the accused person to state that he has been lawfully convicted or acquitted, as the case may be, of the offence charged in the indictment.
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Criminal Procedure.
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30. (1) The bailiff shall, as soon as may be after Service. having received the same, deliver to a gaoler the copy and notice for the information of the Commissioner of Prisons and to the accused himself the copy and notice for service on the accused.
(2) In any case where the accused person cannot be found, the bailiff shall leave the said copy and notice with some one of his household for him at his dwelling-house, or with some one of his clerks for him at his counting-house or place of business, and, if none such can be found, shall affix the said copy and notice to the outer or principal door of his dwelling-house.
(3) The bailiff shall, at the time of service, explain to the accused person, or to the person, if any, with whom the said copy and notice are left, the nature and exigency thereof.
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