Section 3B: Objection to release on bail before Court
This section is inserted by Act No 4 of 2025, section 4.
consolidated text (as at 2011, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
3B. Objection to release on bail before Court
(1) After a person has been provisionally charged
before a Court, the Commissioner of Police may, or may not object,
to the release on bail of that person before that Court.
(2) Where, on an application for the release on bail
of a defendant or detainee is made before a Court,
the Commissioner of Police –
(a) may not object to the release on bail of the
defendant or detainee; or
(b) has the intention to object to the release on bail
of the defendant or detainee on any of the
grounds specified in section 4, he shall seek the
advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions
thereon and the decision to object or not
to object to such release shall rest solely on the
Director of Public Prosecutions.
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Questions this section answers
- Can the police object to my release on bail after I've been provisionally charged?
- If the police want to object to my bail, whose decision actually decides whether to object, theirs or the Director of Public Prosecutions'?