Section 133, The Criminal Procedure Act, 2024

The Court may, upon the application of the prosecutor orthe defence, if it considers that there is sufficient cause for the delay, postpone the trial of a defendant to be held at a time and place to be named at the time of granting such postponement and respite the recognisances of the prosecutor and witnesses, in which case the respited recognisances shall have the same force and effect as fresh recognisances to prosecute and give evidence at any such subsequent date would have had.