Section 36, THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACTS, 1965

(1) Every Court has authority to cause to be brought before it any person who is within the local limits of itsjurisdiction and is charged with an offence committed within Sierra Leone, or which according to law may be dealt with as if it had been committed within Sierra Leone, and any person within such limits against whom a complaints is made on which the Court has power to make any order for the payment of money or otherwise, and to deal with all such persons according to its jurisdiction. (2) The Supreme Court has in addition authority to cause to be brought before it any person who is within Sierra Leone if he is charged with an offence over which the Supreme Court has jurisdiction. Accused person to be remitted in certain cases to another Court.