Federal Register of Legislation
NORFOLK ISLAND Bail Act 2005
No. 27, 2005
Compilation No. 4
Compilation date: 10 July 2021
Includes amendments up to: Norfolk Island Continued Laws Ordinance 2015 (No. 2, 2015) as amended up to Norfolk Island Legislation Amendment (Criminal and Civil Matters) Ordinance 2021 (F2021L00975)
NORFOLK ISLAND
BAIL ACT 2005
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Heading PART 1 – PRELIMINARY 1. Short title 2. Commencement 3. Interpretation 4. Application of Act 5. Savings and transitional PART 2 – GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO BAIL Division 1 – Bail generally 6. Grant of bail for certain periods 7. Rights following grant of bail Division 2 – Presumption against bail for certain offences 8. Presumption against bail for certain offences Division 3 – Presumption in favour of bail 9. Presumption in favour of bail for certain offences Division 4 – Dispensing with bail 10. Dispensing with bail 11. Effect of dispensing with bail 12. Decision to dispense with bail Division 5– Miscellaneous provisions 13. Bail may be granted where no entitlement 14. Power to refuse bail 15. Grant of bail when not in custody PART 3 – POLICE BAIL 16. Authority for police to grant bail 16A. Bail for domestic violence offence 17. Bail in respect of several offences 18. Bail register PART 4 – COURT BAIL 19. General provisions as to court bail 20. Power of Chief Magistrate to grant bail 21. Limitations on power of Chief Magistrate 22. Limitation on length of adjournments where bail refused 23. Power of Supreme Court to grant bail 24. Limitation on power to grant bail PART 5 – PROVISIONS APPLYING TO BOTH POLICE AND COURT BAIL Division 1 – Criteria to be considered in bail applications 25. Criteria to be considered in bail applications Division 2 – Bail undertakings 26. Bail undertakings 27. Persons to whom bail undertaking may be given Division 3 – Bail conditions 28. Conditions of bail 29. Restrictions on imposing bail conditions 30. Entry into agreement 31. Provisions relating to money or security 32. Discharge of liability of persons other than accused Division 4 – Continuation of bail 33. Continuation of bail PART 6 – REVIEW OF BAIL DECISIONS Division 1 – Police bail 34. Review Division 2 – Court bail 35. Review of bail decision 36. Review by Supreme Court 37. Provisions relating to review of bail decisions 38. Applications for bail not limited by this Part PART 7 – NON-COMPLIANCE WITH UNDERTAKING OR CONDITIONS 39. Arrest for absconding or breach of condition 40. Failure to appear 41. Enforcement of bail undertakings 42. Suspension or mitigation of forfeiture PART 8 – MISCELLANEOUS 43. Notices 44. Writ of habeas corpus 45. False statements in acknowledgements 46. Indemnification of agreeing parties 47. Civil standard of proof for certain purposes 48. Evidence 49. Surety to have no right of arrest 50. Abolition of common law right to grant bail 51. Contempt 52. Provisions as to warrants or summonses 53. Contravention of Act by authorised member 54. Representative of mentally impaired or unfit person may enter into bail undertaking on behalf of person 55. Regulations
We try to embed the page this law was scraped from. If the site blocks framing, you still get the link and a local excerpt.
Last checked with source on —
Checking whether the official page can be embedded…
Plain-English simplify of this law: a short summary, key points, and both sides of the argument. Generated on first view via Replicate, then cached. Vote on what helps your study.
No study brief is cached for this law yet. Sign up to generate a plain-English brief.
Sign up to generate