An Act relating to bail for accused persons in or in connection with criminal proceedings.
This Act may be cited as the Bail Act 1978.
This section and section 1 shall commence on the date of assent to this Act.
Except as provided in subsection (1), this Act shall commence on such day as may be appointed by the Governor in respect thereof and as may be notified by proclamation published in the Gazette, being a day that is later than the day appointed and notified under section 2 (2) of the Crimes (Amendment) Act 1979.
(Repealed)
In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:
(a) a registrar of the Local Court, or
(b) an officer of the Attorney General’s Department or the Department of Corrective Services who is declared (whether by name or by reference to the holder of a particular office) by the Minister by instrument in writing published in the Gazette to be an authorised justice for the purposes of this Act, or
(c) a person prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition.
(a) a mother, father, wife, husband, de facto partner, daughter, son, step-daughter, step-son, sister, brother, half-sister or half-brother of the person, or the other party to a domestic relationship to which the person is a party, or
(b) if the person is a party to a domestic relationship, any person who is a relative, of the kind mentioned in paragraph (a), of either party to the relationship.
“De facto partner” is defined in section 21C of the Interpretation Act 1987.
(a) the Court of Criminal Appeal, the Supreme Court, the Land and Environment Court, the Industrial Relations Commission, the District Court or the Local Court, or
(b) any other court which, or person who, exercises criminal jurisdiction.