(2) A peace officer or other person arresting any person by virtue of a warrant under this Act
shall, upon demand of the person arrested, produce the warrant to him and notify him of the
substance thereof.
(3) A person arrested by virtue of a warrant under this Act shall as soon as possible be brought
to a police station or charge office, unless any other place is specially mentioned in the warrant as
the place to which such person shall be brought, and he shall thereafter be brought as soon as
possible before a judicial officer upon a charge of the offence mentioned in the warrant.
(4) If a person arrested by virtue of a warrant is charged with any offence referred to in⎯
(a) paragraph 10 of the Third Schedule, and the judicial officer before whom the person is
brought in terms of this section is satisfied that there is a reasonable suspicion that the
person committed the offence, the judicial officer shall order that person’s continued
detention for a period of twenty-one days; or
(b) the Ninth Schedule and there is produced to the judicial officer before whom the person is
brought in terms of this section a certificate issued by or on behalf of the Attorney-General
in the same terms as those specified in subsection (3b) of section thirty-two, the judicial
officer shall, if satisfied that there is a reasonable suspicion that the person committed the
offence, order that person’s continued detention for a period of twenty-one days or the
lesser period specified in the Attorney-General’s certificate.
[Subsections (4), (5) and (6) inserted by s. 4 of Act 14/2004.]
(5) A person referred to in subsection (4) shall, unless the charge or charges against him or her
are earlier withdrawn, remain in detention for twenty-one days or the lesser period specified in a
certificate mentioned in paragraph (b) of subsection (4), as the case may be, from the date when an
order for the person’s further detention was issued in terms of that section, and no court shall admit
such person to bail during that period.
[Subsections (4), (5) and (6) inserted by s. 4 of Act 14/2004.]
(6) A person referred to in subsection (4) may continue to be detained after the expiry of the
period referred to in subsection (5) pending the outcome of investigations into the charge or charges
against him or her if (without prejudice to the person's right to apply for bail) an order or warrant for
that person's further detention is obtained from a judge or magistrate within forty-eight hours of the
expiry of the period referred to in subsection (5).
[Subsections (4), (5) and (6) inserted by s. 4 of Act 14/2004.]