Acts and Regulations

P-22.1 - Provincial Offences Procedure Act

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Non-appearance by prosecutor
30(1)Where the defendant appears at any time and place as required under this Act and the prosecutor, having had due notice, does not appear, the judge may, upon such terms as the judge considers proper,
(a) dismiss the charge, or
(b) adjourn the proceedings to another time.
30(2)Notwithstanding any applicable limitation period prescribed by this or any other Act, where a charge is dismissed under subsection (1), the proceedings may, with the consent in writing of the Attorney General, be recommenced within thirty days after the day the charge is dismissed and, where proceedings are recommenced under this subsection, no plea of autrefois acquit may be based upon a dismissal under subsection (1).
1990, c.18, s.14