Defence Act, 1957 (Act No. 44 of 1957)

Schedules

Purchase

(1)	Any number of persons may be charged jointly in one charge sheet with the same offence.

(2)	Any person who is charged jointly with one or more other persons and whose defence is likely to be prejudiced by a joint trial, may apply to be tried separately.

(3)	A military court may in the case of a joint trial in its discretion direct that the trial of the accused persons or any of them shall be held separately from the trial of the other or others of such persons.

[Subsection (3) amended by section 43(b) of Act No. 16 of 1999]