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Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act 2015 (No. 25 of 2015)

REPUBLIC OF NAURU


Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act 2015


Act No. 25 of 2015


An Act to amend the Criminal Procedure Act 1972

Certified: 23 October 2015

Table of Contents
1 SHORT TITLE
2 COMMENCEMENT
3 AMENDMENT OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 1972
4 AMENDMENT OF SECTION 87
5 INSERT NEW SECTION 87A


Enacted by the Parliament of Nauru as follows:

  1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act 2015

  1. Commencement

This Act commences upon certification by the Speaker.

  1. Amendment of Criminal Procedure Act 1972

The Criminal Procedure Act 1972 is amended by the provisions of this Act.

  1. Amendment of section 87

Section 87 is repealed and substituted with the following:

87 Absconding or breaching conditions of bail offences
(1) A person who has been released on bail and who without reasonable cause attempts to abscond or fails to surrender to custody, or otherwise breaches any condition of bail imposed by the Court, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $2,000 or 12 months imprisonment, or both.
(2) The burden is on the defendant to prove that he or she had reasonable excuse for failing to surrender to custody or for a breach of his or her bail conditions.
(3) The burden is on the prosecution to prove that the defendant attempted to abscond bail.
(4) A police officer may arrest without warrant any person who has been admitted to bail:
(5) A person arrested under the last preceding subsection:
(6) Where a person who is charged for an offence under subsection 1 is brought before the Court, the Court shall without delay hear the charge of Attempting to Abscond or Absconding or Breaching of Bail Conditions and may, if of the opinion that the person has committed an offence, convict the person and sentence him accordingly.
(7) Where a person is brought before the District Court under the last preceding subsection, the Court in passing sentence may wholly or in part forfeit any bail recognizance and if ordering a fine release him on a new recognizance, with or without sureties.
  1. Insert new section 87A


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