166Failure to answer bail etc—offence

166 Failure to answer bail etc—offence (a) in accordance with a law in force in the ACT (other than the Bail Act 1992), a person arrested in respect of, or charged with, an offence against a law in force in the ACT has been— (i) admitted to bail on an undertaking; or (ii) released or discharged on entering into a recognisance, with or without a surety or sureties, on condition; that he or she will attend, or appear before, a court at a specified time and place or at a time and place to be determined and of which he or she is to be notified; and

(b) he or she fails, without reasonable excuse, to so attend or appear; the person commits an offence. (2) The reference in subsection (1) to an undertaking or a recognisance includes a reference to an undertaking given or a recognisance entered into (as the case requires) following the instituting of an appeal.