(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 in an urban area 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); amended by No. 38 of 2004 s. 59.]