CHAPTER IV: PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

24. Provisions to secure protection of the law and fair play

(3) Every person who is charged with a criminal offence -

(f) shall be permitted to have without payment the assistance of an interpreter if he or she cannot understand the language used at the trial of the charge; and, except with his or her own consent, the trial shall not take place in his or her absence unless he or she so conducts himself or herself as to render the continuance of the proceedings in his or her presence impractical and the court has ordered him or her to be removed and the trial to proceed in his or her absence.