Issue and execution of warrants
117 Issue and execution of warrants
If this Act or the Sentencing Act 1995 empowers a person to issue a warrant to have a person arrested, the warrant must be in the prescribed form and such a warrant has effect according to its wording.
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, it is to be presumed that —
the person who issued the warrant is empowered to do so; and
the signature on the warrant is that of the person who issued it.
A person to whom the warrant is directed must give effect to the warrant as soon as practicable.
The warrant itself is sufficient authority to the person to whom it is directed to arrest the person concerned and to hold the person in custody for the purposes of taking him or her, as soon as practicable, to the place specified in the warrant.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed form
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