Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) An accused
arrested under a warrant issued under section 50F must be taken as soon as is
practicable before an appropriate judicial officer.
(1A) However, if the
accused is arrested less than 24 hours before the time at which the accused is
due to appear in accordance with the accused’s bail undertaking, the
accused must be held in custody and brought before an appropriate judicial
officer at that time.
(1B) Also, subsection
(1C) applies if —
(a)
before arrest, the accused had been released on bail following the
accused’s committal to the District Court or the Supreme Court to be
tried (otherwise than for murder) or sentenced or otherwise dealt with; and
(b) the
accused has not made an appearance in that court on the committal.
(1C) The accused must
be taken as soon as is practicable before a judicial officer who is empowered
to exercise jurisdiction in the court in which the committal order was made,
instead of before an appropriate judicial officer.
(2) The judicial
officer before whom an accused appears under this section may —
(a)
remand the accused in custody to appear at the time and place specified, or
deemed by section 31(3) to be specified, in his bail undertaking; or
(b)
grant fresh bail to the accused in accordance with this Act, other than clause
2 of Part B of Schedule 1.
[Section 50G inserted: No. 61 of 1990 s. 11;
amended: No. 45 of 1993 s. 12; No. 84 of 2004 s. 82; No. 28 of 2024 s. 20.]