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| (1) When the Magistrate commits the accused for trial he shall require every material witnesses for the prosecution or defence who has appeared before him and given evidence and who has not already been bound over, to execute a bond with or without sureties for his appearance to give evidence at the trial and, if required, at any further examination concerning the charge against the accused which may be held by the direction of the Attorney-General ; and for the like purpose it shall be lawful for any Magistrate who examines any witness on commission under the provisions hereinafter contained to require such witness so examined to execute a bond with or without sureties as such Magistrate may determine. |
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| (2) The Magistrate may at any stage of the inquiry require any witness to execute such bond as in the last subsection mentioned for appearance at any further stage of the proceedings either in that court or in the High Court, in case the accused be committed for trial. It shall not be necessary to specify the sessions of the High Court in the bond, but the obligor shall be bound on receiving reasonable notice to attend at the trial in whatever sessions of the High Court the accused may be tried. |
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| (3) If a witness refuses or neglects to execute such bond the Magistrate may commit him to prison until such bond is duly executed or until the trial, when he shall be sent in custody to the court of trial. |
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| (4) The Magistrate shall endorse on the warrant of committal the names of all persons who have been bound over under this section or who having refused to be bound over have been committed to prison. |
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| (5) Every person who executes such bond shall give to the Magistrate an address at which all notices respecting the further proceedings in the case may be left for him, and any notice left at such address for him shall (until the contrary be proved) be deemed to have been received by him. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts