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Section 21 Postponement of trial diet by sheriff

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(1)

The sheriff shall not make an order under section 20B(5)(b) postponing the trial diet in respect of a case set down for trial in the High Court.

(2)

Any order by a sheriff postponing the trial diet in a case not set down for trial in the High Court shall be—

(a)

endorsed on the record copy indictment;

(b)

authenticated by the signature of the sheriff;

(c)

intimated—

(i)

by the prosecutor to any co-accused by serving on them an intimation of postponement in the form set out in Form 14 of Schedule 1;

(ii)

by the sheriff clerk to the governor of any institution in which any co-accused is detained.