Section 17Part 3 — General Provisions Relating to Criminal Investigations and Proceedings
Court may direct security to be taken
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17. (1) When a warrant is issued for the arrest of any person for any offence other than a charge in respect of an offence of murder or treason it may, in the discretion of the Justice of the Peace issuing the same, be directed by endorsement on the warrant that, if such person executes a bond with sufficient sureties for that person’s attendance before the court at a specified time and thereafter until otherwise directed by the court, the police officer to whom the warrant is directed shall take such security and shall release such person from custody.
The endorsement shall state —
the number of sureties;
the amount in which they and the person for whose arrest the warrant is issued are to be respectively bound; and
the time and place at which the person is to attend before the court.
Whenever security is taken under this section the police officer to whom the warrant is directed shall forward the bonds to the court.