16Procedure on non-appearance of person admitted to bail

16 Procedure on non-appearance of person admitted to bail

(1)  [Section 16 Subsection (1) amended by No. 4 of 2017, Sched. 1, Applied:01 Jul 2019] If a person admitted to bail does not appear in accordance with the order for bail and the judicial officer presiding in the court in which that person is required to appear orders that the money deposited for bail by any person must be forfeited to the Crown, that money is payable to the Public Account.

(2)  If –

(a) a person admitted to bail does not appear in accordance with the order for bail; and

(b) the judicial officer does not order that the money deposited for bail by that person is to be forfeited to the Crown; and

(c) while absent, that person is convicted of the offence or breach of duty in respect of which the money was paid –

the appropriate officer must, if so ordered by the judicial officer –

(d) appropriate that money, or so much of it as is required, to pay on behalf of that person any fine or costs payable on conviction; or

(e) if the money deposited for bail is less than any fine or costs so payable, appropriate it in part payment of the fine or costs –

and, on making any such appropriation, the appropriate officer must pay the balance of that money, if any, to that person.