(1) Any number of counts for any offences may be joined in the same indictment if the offences are founded on the same facts or form or are a part of a series of offences of the same or a similar character, but with respect to a count charging murder, no count charging any other offence than murder shall be joined.
(2) When there are more counts than one in an indictment, each count may be treated as a separate indictment.
(3) If the Court thinks it conducive to the ends of justice so to do, it may direct that the accused person be tried on any one or more of such counts separately.
(4) The Court may make such order either before or in the course of the trial, and, if it is made in the course of the trial, the jury shall be discharged from giving a verdict on the counts on which the trial is not to proceed.
(5) The counts in the indictment which are not then tried shall be proceeded upon in all respects, as if they had been contained in a separate indictment.
(6) Unless there are special reasons for so doing, the Court shall not make an order preventing the trial at the same time of any number of distinct charges of stealing, not exceeding five, alleged to have been committed within 6 months from the first to the last of such offences whether or not against the same person.