Section 48: Court Cases involving deportation to be accorded priority.

(1)
Where a person is charged with an offence upon conviction of which the offender may be recommended under this Act or any other Act for deportation, the case shall be dealt with in priority to any case, civil or criminal, other than a case part heard ; and notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act or enactment, the offender at the hearing may be remanded in custody for a period not exceeding 21 days at the first instance,and thereafter as occasion may require, the offender may be again so remanded from time to time ; but in no case shall the total period of remand exceed 90 days.
(2) If no deportation order is made by the Minister within such period or extended period as a foresaid the offender may be dealt with as the court thinks fit; and where a Sentence of imprisonment is imposed, account shall be taken of the period during which the offender was held in custody on remand.