Procedure prior to Trial

Arrest, Judicial Examination, Custody, Bail, Etc.

22 Committal until liberation in due course of law.

1

All informations shall be signed and no person shall be committed until liberated in due course of law for any crime or offence without a warrant in writing expressing the particular charge in respect of which he is committed.

2

Any such warrant for imprisonment which either proceeds on an unsigned information or does not express the particular charge shall be null and void.

3

The accused person shall immediately be given a true copy of the warrant for imprisonment signed by the messenger or executor of the warrant before imprisonment or the warder of the prison receiving the warrant.