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Bail (Amendment) Act 1993

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Bail (Amendment) Act 1993

No. 11 of 1993
Certified on: 4.5.93

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION.

1. Repeal and replacement of Section 4.

"4. ONLY NATIONAL OR SUPREME COURT MAY GRANT BAIL IN CERTAIN CASES."

AN ACT

entitled

Bail (Amendment) Act 1993,

Being an Act to amend the Bail Act (Chapter 340),

MADE by the National Parliament.

1. REPEAL AND REPLACEMENT OF SECTION 4.

Section 4 of the Principal Act is repealed and is replaced with the following:-

"4. ONLY NATIONAL OR SUPREME COURT MAY GRANT BAIL IN CERTAIN CASES.
(1) A person -

• (a) charged with wilful murder, murder or an offence punishable by death; or
• (b) charged with rape, abduction, piracy, burglary, stealing with violence or robbery, kidnapping, assault with intent to steal, or break and enter a building or dwelling-house, and in which a firearm is involved, irrespective of whether or not the firearm was actually used in the commission of the alleged offence,

shall not be granted bail except by the National Court or the Supreme Court.
(2) For the purposes of Subsection (1), "firearm" includes imitation firearm whether or not it is capable of projecting any kind of shot, bullet or missile.".

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Bail (Amendment) Act 1993 which has been made by the National Parliament.

Clerk of the National Parliament.

I hereby certify that the Bail (Amendment) Act 1993 was made by the National Parliament on 4 May 1993.

Speaker of the National Parliament.