Paragraph 12.1 AdjournmentF1

Where circumstances arise in which the court may adjourn a diet under section 75A(2) of the Act of 1995 (adjournment and alteration of diets), and the prosecutor proposes such an adjournment, he may for that purpose require the diet to be called on the date for which it was originally fixed at such time as he thinks appropriate.

The presence of the accused in court when the diet was so called and adjourned shall be sufficient intimation to him of the adjourned diet.

If the diet was so called and adjourned in the absence of the accused, the prosecutor shall forthwith serve on the accused an intimation of adjournment in Form 12.1.

The calling and the adjournment of the diet including a record as to the presence or absence of the accused, as the case may be, shall be endorsed by the clerk of court on the record copy indictment and entered in the record of proceedings in accordance with existing law and practice.

A copy of the order of the court adjourning the diet under section 75A(2) of the Act of 1995 shall be sent by the clerk of court to the governor of any institution in which the accused is detained.