Criminal Procedure Act, 1967

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Period of remand.

24.—(1) The Court shall not remand a person for a period exceeding eight days, except where this section otherwise provides.

(2) Where the Court remands a person on bail, it may remand him for a longer period than eight days if he and the prosecutor consent.

(3) Where the Court remands a person in custody (other than on the occasion of his first appearance before the Court) it may remand him for a period exceeding eight days but not exceeding thirty days if he and the prosecutor consent.

(4) If the Court is satisfied that any person who has been remanded is unable by reason of illness or accident to appear or to be brought before the Court at the expiration of the period of remand, the Court may, in his absence, remand him for such further period, which may exceed eight days, as the Court considers reasonable.

(5) Where there is no sitting of the Court on the day to which a person is remanded, he shall stand remanded to the sitting of the Court next held in the same district court district.