Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Bail Act 1977 - SECT 27

Admission to bail

27. Admission to bail



(1) Where the conditions of an undertaking have been fixed the undertaking
need not be entered into before the court granting the bail but may be entered
into by the parties before any other court or before a bail justice or a court
official or before a member of the police force of or above the rank of
sergeant or for the time being in charge of a police station or, where any of
the parties is in prison, before the governor of the prison or any prison
officer thereat of or above the rank of senior prison officer and thereupon
all the consequences of law shall ensue as if the undertaking had been entered
into before the court granting the bail.

(2) In this section, court official means-

   (a)  in the case of the Supreme Court, the prothonotary or a deputy
        prothonotary;

   (b)  in the case of the County Court, the registrar or a deputy registrar;

   (c)  in the case of the Magistrates' Court, a registrar or deputy
        registrar;

   (d)  in the case of an infringement warrant within the meaning of the
        Infringements Act 2006, the sheriff or a person authorised under
        section 84(5) of that Act.