Section 54: Adjournment and stays

Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 · 1980 c.43

Part II: Civil Jurisdiction and Procedure

54(1)

A magistrates' court may at any time, whether before or after beginning to hear a complaint, adjourn the hearing, and may do so, notwithstanding anything in this Act, when composed of a single justice.

54(2)

The court may when adjourning either fix the time and place at which the hearing is to be resumed or, unless it remands the defendant under section 55 below, leave the time and place to be determined later by the court; but the hearing shall not be resumed at that time and place unless the court is satisfied that the parties have had adequate notice thereof.

54(3)

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54(4)

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