SUPREME COURT (SUMMARY JURISDICTION) ACT 1967 - SECT 4 Orders for appearance or apprehension of defendants

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SUPREME COURT (SUMMARY JURISDICTION) ACT 1967 - SECT 4

4 Orders for appearance or apprehension of defendants

(1) Upon an application being made by any person (in this Act referred to as the "prosecutor") in accordance with the rules, a Judge shall make an order:

(a) ordering any person alleged in the application to have committed an offence punishable in the Court in its summary jurisdiction to appear at a time and place specified in the order to answer to the offence charged in the order, or

(b) ordering the apprehension of any such person for the purpose of the person's being brought before a Judge to answer to the offence charged in the order.

(2) An order under subsection (1) may be made ex parte.

(3) An order in respect of an offence alleged to have been committed by a person may be made under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) whether or not an order in respect of that offence has been made under paragraph (a) of that subsection.

(4) An order under paragraph (b) of subsection (1):

(a) shall be addressed to all members of the police force,

(b) may be addressed to any other person specified in the order, and

(c) may be executed by any member of the police force or by any person to whom it is addressed at any place at which, had the offence specified in the order been committed at that place, that offence would be triable in the Court.