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CAP. 232]
Police Force
[1984 Ed.
may be detained for a period not exceeding 72 hours from the time of such apprehension. Every recognizance so taken shall be of equal obligation on the parties entering into the same and shall be liable to the same proceedings for the estreating thereof as if the same had been taken before a magistrate.
(2) The respective names, residences and occupations of the person so apprehended and of his surety or sureties, if any, entering into such recognizance, together with the condition thereof and the sums respectively acknowledged, shall be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose which shall be laid before the magistrate before whom the person apprehended is to appear or in the case of a person bound by recognizance to surrender for service of a warrant of arrest and detention or for discharge, before any magistrate; and if such person does not appear or has not appeared when called upon at the time and place mentioned in the recognizance, the magistrate shall forthwith estreat the recognizance:
Provided that if the person apprehended appears and makes application for a postponement of the hearing of the charge against him, the magistrate may enlarge the recognizance to such further time as he may think proper, and when the matter has been heard and determined such recognizance shall be discharged without fee or reward.
(3) If, upon a person being taken into custody as aforesaid, it appears to the officer in charge of the police station or a police officer authorized in that behalf by the Commissioner that the inquiry into the case cannot be completed forthwith, he may discharge the said person on his entering into a recognizance, with or without sureties, for a reasonable amount to appear at such police station and at such time as is named in the recognizance, unless he previously receives a notice in writing from the officer in charge of the police station or a police officer authorized in that behalf by the Commissioner that his attendance is not required; and any such recognizance may be enforced as if it were a recognizance for the appearance of the said person before a magistrate.
(3A) (a) Any such police officer may also discharge any such person if such person or a surety, or both such person and a surety, deposit with the officer such sum of money as the officer may specify having regard to all the circumstances, including the seriousness of the alleged offence, the circumstances of such person and the day on or the time at which such sum is to be deposited.
(b) If a person so discharged does not appear before a magistrate, or at such other place as the officer may have specified, at such time as the officer may have specified, a magistrate may order any sum deposited under paragraph (a) to be forfeited. (Added 37 of 1976, s. 2)
(4) Whenever any person apprehended with or without warrant is a member of Her Majesty's forces it shall be lawful for the