Section 349: Where an accused on whom personal service has been affected does not appear and does not give a valid reason there for, no right of audience shall be given to his counsel except only to justify the absence of the accused and the judgment delivered shall considered as having delivered after full hearing.

Section 350:
(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 349:
(a) an accused summoned for an offence punishable with a fine or with a term of imprisonment equal to or less than two years may by letter , apply to be tried in absentia, this letter shall

(2) A judgment shall also be considered as having been delivered after full hearing, where the accused has appeared at a hearing even if he no longer appears at successive adjourned hearings.

Section 425:

(1) The absence of an accused person shall, in no case suspend the hearing or delay the trial of the other accused persons who are present.