CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND EVIDENCE ACT (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 ProsecutorGeneral 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 twentyone days or the lesser period specified in the Prosecutor-General’s certificate. [Subsection inserted by s. 4 of Act No. 14 of 2004 and amended by s. 33 of Act No. 5 of 2014 with effect from 2.1.2015.] (5) A person referred to in subsection (4) shall, unless the charge or charges against him or her are earlier withdrawn, remain in detention for twenty-one days or the lesser period specified in a certificate mentioned in paragraph (b) of subsection (4), as the case may be, from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 subsection, and no court shall admit such person to bail during that period: Provided that the arresting officer or other officer in authority over him or her shall, at intervals of not more than forty-eight hours beginning on the date when the order for the person’s further detention is issued, make a report to the Prosecutor-General on the progress of the investigations into the charge or charges against the person in detention, and if the ProsecutorGeneral is satisfied on the basis of any such report that the person’s detention is no longer justified, the Prosecutor-General may order the immediate and unconditional release of the detained person. [Subsection inserted by s. 4 of Act No. 14 of 2004; proviso inserted by s. 282 of Act No. 23 of 2004 and amended by s. 28 of Act No. 9 of 2006 and by s. 33 of Act No. 5 of 2014 with effect from 2.1.2015.] (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). [Subsection inserted by s. 4 of Act No. 14 of 2004] 35 Arrest on wireless or telegraphic transmission of warrant A communication which— (a) sets out or substantially outlines the terms of a warrant issued in terms of section 33; and (b) is sent or communicated electronically or in an official publication; shall be sufficient authority for the arrest of the person named in the warrant as if it were the original warrant. [Section substituted by s. 10 of Act No. 2 of 2016] 36 Arresting wrong person (1) Any person duly authorized to execute a warrant of arrest who thereupon arrests a person, believing in good faith and on reasonable and probable grounds that he is the person 24

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