Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

14.   Adjournment of the Court

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    (1)   A magistrate may adjourn a court from day to day or to any convenient day.

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    (2)   If the magistrate is not present at the time and place appointed for the sitting of the court, the clerk or the assistant clerk, or, in their absence, a bailiff of the court, may, by public oral notice, adjourn the sitting until such time as may have been communicated to him or her by the magistrate, and all persons bound to be present at the sitting so adjourned shall be equally bound to be present at the time appointed by such notice.

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    (3)   In the absence of any such notice and of any notification to the contrary, all such persons shall be bound to be present at the next succeeding time appointed by notice in the Gazette as aforesaid for the sitting of the court in the same place.