(1) A person shall not
be released on bail for an appearance in court unless he has entered into a
bail undertaking for that appearance or is deemed to have done so under
section 31(3).
(2) A bail undertaking
is an undertaking in writing by an accused in the prescribed form —
(a) that
he will appear at a time and place specified, or deemed by section 31(3) to be
specified, in the undertaking; and
(b) that
if the accused fails to appear at that time and place the accused will, as
soon as is practicable, appear at the court at which the accused was required
to appear, when that court is sitting; and
(c) that
he will comply with such conditions as may be imposed on him under clause 2 of
Part D of Schedule 1; and
(d) that
he will comply with any home detention condition which may be imposed as a
condition on a grant of bail to him pursuant to clause 3 of Part D of Schedule
1,
and containing any
agreement as to forfeiture of money by the accused which may be required
pursuant to clause 1 of that Part.
(3) A bail undertaking
for any appearance may be entered into in respect of more than one offence.
(4) The undertakings
mentioned in subsection (2)(a) and (b) are, subject to section 34, enforceable
under sections 51, 57 and 58.
[Section 28 amended: No. 61 of 1990 s. 9; No. 45
of 1993 s. 12; No. 59 of 2004 s. 141; No. 84 of 2004 s. 82; No. 6 of 2008 s.
18(1).]