16A. Restrictions on powers of authorized officers and justices in certain cases
(1) Where this section applies to a person who has been arrested for an offence jurisdiction does not arise under section 13 until the person is brought before ¾
(a) a court constituted by or so as to include a magistrate; or
(b) where section 15 applies, a Judge of the Supreme Court or a Judge of the Children's Court as the case may require.
(2) This section applies where ¾
(a) a person has been arrested in an urban area for a serious offence; and
(b) the serious offence is alleged to have been committed while the defendant was ¾
(i) on bail for; or
(ii) at liberty under an early release order made in respect of,
another serious offence.
(3) This section also applies where a person has been arrested for an offence against section 61(1) of the Restraining Orders Act 1997 (which creates offences for breaches of violence restraining orders).
(4) In this section ¾
}urban area~ means ¾
(a) the region described in the Third Schedule to the Metropolitan Region Town Planning Scheme Act 1959 and any prescribed area that adjoins that region; and
(b) any other prescribed area of the State, being the whole or part of, or an area adjoining, a local government district under the Local Government Act 1995 that is designated under that Act as a city or a town.
[Section 16A inserted by No. 54 of 1998 s.6(1).]