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Armed Forces Discipline Act 1971

Offences - Offences relating to arrest and escape from custody

45A: Failure to answer bail

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"Not showing up to court when you're supposed to"

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If you are subject to the Armed Forces Discipline Act 1971 and you are released from custody on bail, you must attend court when you are supposed to. You can get in trouble if you do not go to court without a good reason. This can happen if you do not show up at the right time and place, or if you do not go to a new time and place that the court chooses.

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Offences relating to arrest and escape from custody

45AFailure to answer bail

  1. Every person subject to this Act commits an offence, and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 1 year, who, having been released from custody on bail,—

  2. fails without reasonable excuse to attend personally at the time and before the military tribunal or the Court Martial Appeal Court specified in the grant of bail; or
    1. fails without reasonable excuse to attend personally at any time and place to which, during the course of the proceedings, the hearing has been adjourned

      Notes
      • Section 45A: inserted, on , by section 15 of the Armed Forces Discipline Amendment Act (No 2) 2007 (2007 No 98).