Criminal Procedure Act, 1967

Arrest of accused about to abscond.

33.—(1) Where a person charged with an offence has been admitted to bail, a justice of the District Court or a peace commissioner may, if he thinks fit, on the application of the surety or any of the sureties of the accused or of a member of the Garda Síochána and upon information being made in writing and on oath by or on behalf of such surety or member that the accused is about to abscond for the purpose of evading justice, issue a warrant for the arrest of the accused.

(2) When arrested he shall be brought before a justice of the District Court.

(3) If the accused is brought before a justice otherwise than at a sitting of the Court for the district in which the order sending him forward for trial was made or, if he is on remand, of the Court before which he was bound by his recognisance to appear, the justice shall remand him to appear before such a sitting as aforesaid, and for this purpose the justice shall have the powers of remand conferred on the Court by this Part.

(4) The Court sitting as aforesaid may commit the accused to prison to await his trial or until he enters into a fresh recognisance or, if he is on remand, further remand him.