INDEPENDENT BROAD-BASED ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION ACT 2011 - SECT 153 Charging and arresting a person for contempt

INDEPENDENT BROAD-BASED ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION ACT 2011 - SECT 153

    (1)     If it appears to the IBAC that a person is guilty of contempt of the IBAC, the IBAC may—

        (a)     issue a certificate of charge—

              (i)     charging the person with contempt; and

              (ii)     setting out or attaching details of the alleged contempt; and

        (b)     issue an arrest warrant in the prescribed form to arrest the person.

    (2)     An arrest warrant—

S. 153(2)(a) substituted by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 85.24(a)).

        (a)     may be directed to a named police officer or all police officers; and

S. 153(2)(b) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 85.24(b)).

        (b)     authorises the police officer or police officers to whom it is directed to arrest the person named in the warrant.

    (3)     A person who is arrested under an arrest warrant—

        (a)     is to be brought before the Supreme Court without delay to be dealt with according to law; and

        (b)     may be detained in police custody in the meantime.

S. 154 inserted by No. 28/2012 s. 21 (as amended by No. 82/2012 s. 151(3)).