Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Where this section
applies, an authorised police officer may —
(a)
cancel an undertaking of the kind described in clause 2(3)(c) of Part C of
Schedule 1; and
(b)
approve of another person as a responsible person within the meaning in that
clause; and
(c)
detain the accused or order his detention until the person so approved enters
into an undertaking of the kind mentioned in paragraph (a).
(2) Subsection (1)
applies where —
(a) a
person has entered into an undertaking referred to in paragraph (a) of that
subsection; and
(b) a
judicial officer when granting bail ordered that the person may under this
section be released from the undertaking by an authorised police officer; and
(c) the
person wishes to be so released.
(3) A police officer
may, for the purpose of the exercise of the powers in subsection (1), take
into custody a child accused who has been released on bail.
(4) If the police
officer is not an authorised police officer he shall, as soon as is
practicable, bring the accused before an authorised police officer for the
purpose referred to in subsection (3).
(5) After an
undertaking has been entered into as mentioned in subsection (1)(c), the
accused, subject to this Act, has a right to be at liberty until he is
required to appear before a court.
[Section 17A inserted: No. 45 of 1993 s. 9;
amended: No. 84 of 2004 s. 82.]
[ 18-19. Deleted: No. 59 of 2006 s. 7(1).]