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