(1) Where this section
applies to a person who has been arrested for an offence jurisdiction does not
arise under section 13 until the person is brought before —
(a) a
court constituted by or so as to include a magistrate; or
(b)
where section 15 applies, a judge of the Supreme Court or a judge of the
Children’s Court as the case may require.
(2) This section
applies where —
(a) a
person has been arrested in an urban area for a serious offence; and
(b) the
serious offence is alleged to have been committed while the accused was
—
(i)
on bail for; or
(ii)
at liberty under an early release order made in respect
of,
another serious
offence.
[(3) deleted.]
(4) In this section
—
urban area means —
(a) the
metropolitan region as defined in the Planning and Development Act 2005 and
any prescribed area that adjoins that region; and
(b) any
other prescribed area of the State, being the whole or part of, or an area
adjoining, a local government district under the Local Government Act 1995
that is designated under that Act as a city or a town.
[Section 16A inserted: No. 54 of 1998 s. 6(1);
amended: No. 38 of 2004 s. 59; No. 84 of 2004 s. 82; No. 38 of 2005 s. 15; No.
49 of 2016 s. 88; No. 13 of 2020 s. 23.]