The Criminal Procedure Rules 2005

Records to be kept where warrant is endorsed for bail

18.4.—(1) Where a person is arrested and released on bail pursuant to a warrant endorsed for bail in accordance with section 117 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980(1), the person executing the warrant shall make a record stating the matters set out in paragraph (2).

(2) Those matters are—

(a) the name of the person arrested;

(b) the offence or default with which the person arrested is charged and the reason for the arrest;

(c) the fact that that person is to be released on bail;

(d) the date, time and place at which that person is to appear before the court; and

(e) any other details which in the opinion of the person executing the warrant are relevant.

(3) After making the record, the person executing the warrant shall—

(a) sign the record;

(b) invite the person arrested to sign the record;

(c) if the person arrested refuses to sign the record, annotate the record to show the fact of that refusal;

(d) make a copy of the record and give it to the person arrested; and

(e) send the original record to the court officer for the court which issued the warrant.

[Note. Formerly rule 90B of the Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981.]

(1)

Section 117 was amended by section 47 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60).