Adjournment of the court

(1) The magistrate may adjourn the court from day to day or to any convenient day. (2) If the magistrate is not present at the time and place appointed for a sitting of any court, the clerk or the assistant clerk, or in the absence of both of them a bailiff, may by public oral notice adjourn the sitting to the time communicated to him by the magistrate. (3) In the absence of any such communication, the court may be adjourned to such time as may be convenient, and all persons bound to be present at the sitting so adjourned shall be equally bound to be present at the time appointed by the notice. (4) In the absence of the notice and of any notification to the contrary, all such persons shall be bound to be present at the next succeeding time appointed by order in accordance with section 41, or otherwise for the sitting of the court in the same place. CAP. 289.