Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 592

592 Adjournment of trial

(1) The court to which a person has been committed or remanded for trial on indictment or before which an indictment is presented may, if it thinks fit, adjourn the trial and may remand the accused person accordingly.

(1A) A trial may be adjourned whether or not—

(a) the accused person is present; or

(b) the accused person has been called upon to plead to the indictment; or

(c) a jury has been sworn; or

(d) evidence has been given.

(2) The Crown shall, where it is proposed to make application for an adjournment in the absence of an accused person who is detained in a place of legal detention, notify in writing that accused person—

(a) that the application is to be made and the nature, date, time and place thereof; and

(b) that the accused person may furnish to the court a statement in writing in relation to the application; and

(c) that the accused person may be represented by counsel on the hearing of the application.

(3) For the purposes of this section—

"adjourn the trial" includes postpone the trial in a case where the accused person has not been called upon to plead to the indictment.