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221 PDFTitle:CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ORDINANCEGazette Number:
Section:9KHeading:Arrest of persons admitted to bailVersion Date:30/06/1997

(1) A police officer may without warrant arrest and detain any person admitted to bail if-

        (a) the police officer has reasonable grounds for believing that any condition on or subject to which such person was admitted to bail has been or is likely to be broken; or
        (b) any police officer has been notified in writing by any surety from whom a recognizance of bail has been taken for that person that the surety believes that that person is likely to fail to surrender to custody as shall have been appointed by a court and for that reason the surety wishes to be relieved of his obligations as surety.
(2) Any person arrested under subsection (1) shall be brought within 24 hours after his arrest or as soon as practicable thereafter before a magistrate except where he was so arrested within the period of 24 hours immediately preceding an occasion on which he is required by virtue of his bail to surrender to custody at any court, in which case he shall be brought before that court.
(3) If it appears to the court before which a person is brought under subsection (2) that any condition of admission to bail has been or is likely to be broken, the court may-
        (a) order that that person be detained in custody; or
        (b) admit that person to bail on the same conditions or on such other conditions as it thinks fit,
but if it does not so appear to that court, the court shall release that person from custody and admit him to bail on the same conditions.
(Added 56 of 1994 s. 2)