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(f)
shall be permitted to have without
payment the assistance of an
interpreter if he cannot understand the
language used at the trial, and except
with his own consent the trial shall
not take place in his absence unless he
so conducts himself as to render the
continuance of the proceedings in his
presence impracticable and the court
has ordered him to be removed and
the trial to proceed in his absence:
Provided that the trial may take place in his
absence in any case in which it is so provided by a law under
which he is entitled to adequate notice of the charge and the
date, time and place of the trial and to a reasonable opportunity
of appearing before the court.
(3) When a person is tried for any criminal
offence, the accused person or any person authorised by him in
that behalf shall, if he so requires and subject to payment of
such reasonable fee as may be prescribed by law, be given
within a reasonable time after judgment a copy for the use of
the accused person of any record of the proceeding made by or
on behalf of the court.
(4) A person shall not be held to be guilty of a
criminal offence on account of any act or omission that did not,
at the time it took place, constitute such an offence, and no
penalty shall be imposed for any criminal offence that is more
severe in degree or description than the maximum penalty that
might have been imposed for that offence at the time when it
was committed.
(5) A person who shows that he has been tried
by a competent court for a criminal offence and either convicted
or acquitted shall not again be tried for that offence or for any
other criminal offence of which he could have been convicted at
the trial for that offence, save upon the order of a superior court
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