CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND EVIDENCE ACT charge of having committed an offence, the officer who arrested or warned the said person shall, unless otherwise directed by a magistrate, warn the parent or guardian of such person, or cause him to be warned, if he can be found within the area of jurisdiction of the court, to attend the court on the day on which and at the time at which such person is to be brought or was warned to appear before such court and to remain in attendance during the proceedings against such person in that court, and thereupon section 113A shall apply, mutatis mutandis: Provided that this subsection shall not apply in respect of a person under the age of eighteen years who is married or who appears to the officer who arrests or warns that person to be tacitly emancipated. [Subsection amended by s. 49 of Act No. 2 of 2016] 143 Charges in remitted cases (1) When any case has been remitted by the Prosecutor-General to be dealt with by a magistrates court, the court shall, with all convenient dispatch, cause the accused to be brought before it. [Subsection amended by s. 33 of Act No. 5 of 2014 with effect from 2.1.2015] (2) If the accused has been released on bail, the court shall cause a notice to be served on him stating that the case has been remitted to it to be dealt with and requiring him to appear on the day appointed for the trial. (3) A notice in terms of subsection (2) shall be served in the same manner as a criminal summons and, if the accused does not appear as required in the notice, his bail may be estreated and he may be arrested and brought before the court as in the case of a person who has not appeared upon a criminal summons. C. General for all courts 144 Joinder of counts (1) Any number of counts, for any offences whatever, may be joined in the same indictment, summons or charge and where separate indictments, summonses or charges have been presented against an accused person, the court may, with the consent of the prosecutor and the accused, treat the separate indictments, summonses or charges as being a number of counts joined in the same indictment, summons or charge. [Subsection amended, by repeal of proviso, by s. 5 of Act No. 8 of 1997.] (2) When there are more counts than one in an indictment, summons or charge, they shall be numbered consecutively, and each count may be treated as a separate indictment, summons or charge. (3) If the court thinks it conducive to the ends of justice to do so, it may direct that the accused shall be tried upon any one or more of such counts separately and such direction may be made either before or in the course of the trial. (4) The counts in the indictment which are not then tried shall be proceeded upon in all respects as if they had been contained in a separate indictment. (5) If it is alleged that on several different occasions on any one day or during any period any person has committed— (a) an offence against or in respect of any one person; or (b) an offence which is not an offence against or in respect of any person; the indictment, summons or charge may charge in one count that the accused committed the offence on several different occasions on that day or during that period. 145 Where doubtful what offence has been committed If, by reason of the nature of an act or series of acts, or of any uncertainty as to the facts which can be proved, or if for any other reason whatever it is doubtful which of several offences is constituted by the facts which can be proved, the accused may be charged with having committed all or any of those offences, and any number of such charges may be tried at one 69