Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (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 —
(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 —
(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 accused was
—
(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
—
urban area means —
(a) the
metropolitan region as defined in the Planning and Development Act 2005
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; No. 84 of 2004
s. 82; No. 38 of 2005 s. 15.]