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1848 c.12 48.(1) Where an indictment has been ... presented at any ... court against a person who is then at large and who has not appeared and pleaded to such indictment, whether or not he has been bound by recognizance to appear, the clerk of ... the court ... may, subject to subsection (2), at any time after the ... sitting of the ... court at which the indictment was ... presented upon the application of the prosecutor grant him a certificate of such indictment having been ... presented. (2) A certificate shall not be granted under subsection (1) in respect of any indictment [in respect of which the Judge has, pursuant to section 2(3) of the Grand Jury (Abolition) Act (Northern Ireland) 1969, directed the entry of "No Bill"]. (3) Upon production of the certificate to any justice of the peace, the justice may issue a warrant to arrest such person and for his appearance before a magistrates' court. (4) Upon the arrest of a person for whom a warrant is issued under subsection (3) and upon its being proved on oath that the person so arrested is the person who is charged and named in the indictment, the magistrates' court before whom such person has been brought shall, without further enquiry, commit him for trial remanding him to prison meanwhile or admitting him to bail in accordance with the provisions of section 45. (5) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent any judge, ... or ... officer from issuing any warrant (which he might otherwise by law issue) in any such case for the arrest of any such person.
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