Proceedings for compensation order
4.—(1)  The court may fix the date of the proceedings in which the court will decide whether to make a compensation order.
(2)  In fixing the date of the proceedings, the court may consider any relevant factor, including (but not limited to) the following:
(a)whether the offender concerned is in remand and, if so, whether the offender’s sentence is likely to be shorter than the period of remand;
(b)whether a sentence of caning is likely to be imposed on the offender concerned and, if so, whether the offender is a man approaching 50 years of age.
(3)  After a court has notified the relevant person in accordance with rule 3 of the proceedings in which the court will decide whether to make a compensation order, the court may conduct the proceedings even if the relevant person is absent from the whole or any part of those proceedings.