PROCEDURE ON ACCUSED’S FAILURE TO APPEAR
Failure to appear, on summons or evading service
1. Where a summons is issued requiring the appearance before the court of a person against whom a complaint has been made or an offence has been alleged and such person fails to appear at the required time and place or at any adjourned hearing of the matter, and it is proved to the Judge there present that such person has been served with the summons, or where at any time either before or after the date on which such person is required by the summons to appear an information, in the Form 22.1, Schedule B, is made that he or she is evading service or is about to abscond or has absconded, the Judge may issue a warrant, in the Form 22.2, Schedule B, for the arrest of such person.
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