Failure to answer bail etc—offence
166 Failure to answer bail etc—offence
If—
in accordance with a law in force in the ACT (other than the Bail Act 1992), a person arrested in respect of, or charged with, an offence against a law in force in the ACT has been—
admitted to bail on an undertaking; or
released or discharged on entering into a recognisance, with or without a surety or sureties, on condition;
that he or she will attend, or appear before, a court at a specified time and place or at a time and place to be determined and of which he or she is to be notified; and
he or she fails, without reasonable excuse, to so attend or appear;
the person commits an offence.
Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units, imprisonment for 2 years or both.
The reference in subsection (1) to an undertaking or a recognisance includes a reference to an undertaking given or a recognisance entered into (as the case requires) following the instituting of an appeal.
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