Section 52: Joinder of charges and defendants .

(1) Subject to the provisions of rules made under section 50, charges for more than one felony or for more thanone misdemeanour, and charges for both felonies and misdemeanours may, if those charges are founded on the same facts or form or are a part of a series of offences of the same or a similar character, be joined in the same complaint, information or indictment and tried at the same time, but where under the provisions of this section a felony is tried together with a misdemeanour in the Supreme Court, then if the trial is with a jury, the jury shall be sworn and the person accused shall have the same right of challenging jurors as if all the offences charged in the indictment were felonies. (2) The following persons shall be charged and tried together, namely— a. persons accused of the same offence committed in the course of the same transaction; b. persons accused of an offence and persons accused of aiding and abetting or being an accessory to or of attempting to commit such offence; c. persons accused of different offences where all such offences are founded on the same facts or form or are part of a series of offences of the same or a similar character; d. persons accused of different offences committed in the course of the same transactions. OFFENCES BY NON-CITIZENS WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL SEA Conditions precedent to trial of foreigners for offences committed in territorial sea.