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Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014

Procedural, administrative, and miscellaneous matters - Procedural matters - Procedure governing applications to court

106: Respondent who fails to appear may be brought to court

You could also call this:

"If you don't show up to court when you're supposed to, the police can arrest you and bring you there."

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If you are a respondent and you don't go to a hearing after being told to, the Judge can issue a warrant for you. This warrant means you can be detained and taken to court. The warrant is sent to all police officers.

The police officer who gets the warrant can use it to arrest you. They can enter any building to find you if they think you are there. They can even break in if they need to, but only if they have a good reason to think you are inside.

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Part 2Procedural, administrative, and miscellaneous matters
Procedural matters: Procedure governing applications to court

106Respondent who fails to appear may be brought to court

  1. If a respondent who has been duly summoned to attend a hearing fails to appear at the hearing, the Judge may issue a warrant for the respondent to be detained and brought before the court.

  2. The warrant must be directed to every constable.

  3. The warrant may be executed by any constable.

  4. For the purposes of executing the warrant, the constable executing it may at any time enter any premises, by force if necessary, if he or she has reasonable grounds to believe that the respondent is on those premises.