Bail Act 2000

Court bail - Granting of bail on adjournment - Electronic monitoring condition

30H: Use of information obtained for EM report

You could also call this:

"What EM report information can be used for"

You can use information from an EM report for a few things. Information can be used to decide on your bail application. It can also be used to prepare a pre-sentence report under section 26 of the Sentencing Act 2002, or for anything else you agree to. You cannot use EM information for anything else. EM information must be used according to these rules.

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30G: EM assessor must ascertain whether relevant occupants consent to defendant remaining at EM address, or

"EM assessor checks if people at the address agree to you staying there"

30I: Court must be satisfied as to certain matters before granting bail with EM condition, or

"Court must check some things before letting you out on bail with an Electronic Monitoring condition"

Part 3Court bail
Granting of bail on adjournment: Electronic monitoring condition

30HUse of information obtained for EM report

The uses to which information obtained for the purpose of preparing an EM report under section 30F may be put are the following:
use in the determination of the application to which the report relates:
use in the preparation of a pre-sentence report under section 26 of the Sentencing Act 2002 in relation to the defendant:
any other use to which the defendant has consented.

EM information may not be used except in accordance with subsection (1).

Notes

Section 30H: inserted, on 4 September 2013, by section 19 of the Bail Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 66).