Part 4: Police Powers Chapter 1: Pre-charge Bail Section 60: Release under section 24A of the Criminal Justice Act 2003
Section 24A of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 gives the police the power to arrest a person where the police have reasonable grounds for suspecting that the person has failed, without reasonable excuse, to comply with any of the conditions attached to a conditional caution that he or she has previously accepted. Section 24A(2) also allows the police to release the person on bail while a charging decision is made. Section 60 amends section 24A(2) to require the custody officer to determine whether the arrested person should be released with or without police bail, applying the pre-conditions for bail set out in new section 50A of PACE (inserted by section 58); the time limits set out in new sections 47ZA to 47ZM of PACE (inserted by section 63) do not apply in this situation.