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CRIMINAL CODE 1924 - SECT 331A

   Release from prison if no indictment filed
(1)  If –
(a) a person is in a prison, by reason of having been remanded in custody by justices; and
(b) justices have committed that person for trial in the Supreme Court for an indictable offence; and
(c) a Crown Law Officer decides on the evidence before him or her not to file an indictment against that person for that offence –
the Crown Law Officer may issue a warrant to the person in charge of that prison to release that person immediately.
(2)  A person in charge of a prison who is provided with a warrant under subsection (1) is to immediately release the person named in the warrant from custody in respect of the offence mentioned in the warrant.



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