Hong Kong Ordinances

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ORDINANCE - SECT 9K

Arrest of persons admitted to bail

(1) A police officer may without warrant arrest and detain any person
admitted to bail if-

   (a)  the police officer has reasonable grounds for believing that any
        condition on or subject to which such person was admitted to bail has
        been or is likely to be broken; or

   (b)  any police officer has been notified in writing by any surety from
        whom a recognizance of bail has been taken for that person that the
        surety believes that that person is likely to fail to
        surrender to custody as shall have been appointed by a court and for
        that reason the surety wishes to be relieved of his obligations as
        surety.

(2) Any person arrested under subsection (1) shall be brought within 24 hours
after his arrest or as soon as practicable thereafter before a magistrate
except where he was so arrested within the period of 24 hours immediately
preceding an occasion on which he is required by virtue of his bail to
surrender to custody at any court, in which case he shall be brought before
that court.

(3) If it appears to the court before which a person is brought under
subsection (2) that any condition of admission to bail has been or is likely
to be broken, the court may-

   (a)  order that that person be detained in custody; or

   (b)  admit that person to bail on the same conditions or on such other
        conditions as it thinks fit, but if it does not so appear to that
        court, the court shall release that person from custody and admit him
        to bail on the same conditions. (Added 56 of 1994 s. 2)