''BOOK III Procedure Relating to Indictable Offences, PART V Trial in the Supreme Court, TITLE XVII
Mode of Trial, 139. Joinder of counts, and proceedings thereon''

(1)Any number of counts for any offences whatever may be joined in the same indictment, and shall be sufficiently distinguished:

Provided that to a count charging murder no count charging any offence other than murder shall be joined.

(2) When there are more counts than one in an indictment, each count may be treated as a separate indictment.

(3)If the Court thinks it conducive to the ends of justice to do so, it may order that the accused shall be tried upon any one or more of the counts separately. The order may be made either before or in the course of the trial, and, if it is made in the course of the trial, the jury shall be discharged from giving a verdict on the counts on which the trial is not to proceed. 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:

Provided that, unless there are special reasons for so doing, no order shall be made preventing the trial at the same time of any number of distinct charges of stealing, not exceeding five, alleged to have been committed within six months from the first to the last of the offences, whether against the same person or not.

(4) If one sentence is passed upon any verdict of guilty on an indictment containing more counts than one, the sentence shall be good if any of the counts would have justified the sentence.