Part 3Court bail
Granting of bail on adjournment: Electronic monitoring condition
30MBCourt must specify all details of authorisation or enable EM assessor to approve authorised absence
In authorising a defendant to be absent from the EM address under section 30M, the court must—
- specify all details of an authorisation; or
- enable an EM assessor to approve, in their discretion, the defendant to be absent from the EM address in line with an authorisation’s—
- specified purpose or purposes; and
- details specified under subsection (2).
- specified purpose or purposes; and
In enabling an EM assessor to approve an authorised absence under subsection (1)(b), the court must—
- specify all details of an authorisation; or
- specify some details of an authorisation, and enable or require an EM assessor, in approving the authorised absence, to specify other details of the authorisation that—
- are not inconsistent with the details specified by the court; and
- are or include the time or times of any day during which the defendant may be absent, if not specified by the court; or
- are not inconsistent with the details specified by the court; and
- enable or require an EM assessor, in approving the authorised absence, to specify all details of an authorisation (other than the place or places that the defendant may go to while absent, because the EM assessor must decide, in their discretion, whether to specify that detail under this paragraph).
Notes
- Section 30MB: inserted, on , by section 5 of the Bail (Electronic Monitoring) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 7).


