Section 44
Proclamation for person absconding
If any Court has reason to believe, whether after taking evidence or not, that any person against whom a warrant has been
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issued by it has absconded or is concealing himself so that the warrant cannot be executed the Court may publish a written proclamation requiring him to appear at a specified place and at a specified time not less than thirty days from the date of publishing the proclamation.
(2)
The proclamation shall be published as follows:
(a)
it shall be publicly read in some conspicuous place of the town, village or kampong in or near which that person ordinarily resides;
(b)
it shall be affixed to some conspicuous part of the house or other place in which that person ordinarily resides or in some conspicuous place of the town, village or kampong; and
(c)
a copy thereof shall be affixed to some conspicuous part of the Court house.
(3)
A statement in writing by the Court issuing the proclamation to the effect that the proclamation was duly published on a specified day shall be conclusive evidence that the requirements of this section have been complied with and that the proclamation was published on that day.