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NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION ACT 2022 - SECT 92

Powers of judge in relation to person arrested

  (1)   A person arrested under a warrant issued under section   91 must be brought, as soon as practicable, before a superior court judge.

  (2)   The judge may:

  (a)   grant the person bail:

  (i)   on such security as the judge thinks fit; and

  (ii)   on such conditions as the judge thinks are necessary to ensure that the person appears as a witness at a hearing before the Commissioner; or

  (b)   order that the person continue to be detained for the purpose of ensuring that the person appears as a witness at a hearing before the Commissioner; or

  (c)   order that the person be released.

  (3)   A person who is detained under paragraph   (2)(b) must be brought before a superior court judge:

  (a)   within 14 days after the person was brought, or last brought, before such a judge; or

  (b)   within such shorter or longer time as a superior court judge fixed on the person's last previous appearance before such a judge;

and the judge may exercise any of the powers under subsection   (2).



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