Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to section 22, if:
(a) the Attorney - General receives a request for provisional arrest of a person; and
(b) Division 2 has been complied with in respect of the request;
the Attorney - General may, by written notice in the statutory form expressed to be directed to any magistrate, state that the request has been received.
(2) If the Attorney - General issues such a notice, a magistrate must issue a warrant, by writing in the statutory form, for the person's arrest if an application is made, in the statutory form, on behalf of the ICC, for issue of a warrant pursuant to the notice.
(3) After the warrant has been issued, the magistrate must without delay send to the Attorney - General a report stating that the magistrate has issued the warrant.