Section 3B: Objection to release on bail before Court
This section is inserted by The Bail (Amendment) Act 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'?