New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

JUSTICES ACT 1902 - SECT 100AG

100AG Arrest warrant

(1) Whenever any person for whose appearance an attendance notice has been issued does not appear at the time and place appointed by the notice, a Justice or Justices constituting a Local Court may, upon proof of the due service of a copy of the notice upon the person at a reasonable time before the time so appointed, issue or make an order authorising the issue of a warrant for the apprehension of the person.

(2) A warrant authorised to be issued under subsection (1) may be signed by any Justice.

(3) Whenever any person is apprehended under any such warrant, the Justice or Justices before whom the person is brought shall:

(a) subject to the Bail Act 1978 , commit the person:

(i) by warrant to a correctional centre, police station or court cell complex, or

(ii) verbally to such safe custody as the Justice or Justices may think fit,

and order the person to be brought up at a time and place to be appointed by the Justice or Justices, and

(b) give due notice of the time and place so appointed to the person named in the attendance notice as the informant.

(4) Sections 64 and 65 apply to and in respect of a warrant issued under this section in the same way as they apply to and in respect of a warrant issued under Division 2.