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| (1) Every warrant of arrest issued by a court shall be signed by a Judge of that court and shall be in the prescribed form. Every such warrant shall remain in force until it is cancelled by the court which issued it or until it is executed. |
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| (2) A court issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person may in the case of any non-bailable offence and shall in the case of a bailable offence direct by endorsement on the warrant that if such person executes a bond, with or without sureties as to the arresting authority shall seem fit or as directed by court, for his attendance before the court at a specified time and hereafter until otherwise directed by the court, the officer to whom the warrant is directed shall take such security, if any, and shall release such person from custody. |
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| (3) The endorsement shall state-
| | | (b) the amount in which they and the person for whose arrest the warrant is issued are to be respectively bound; and | | |
| | (c) the day and the hour at which he is to attend before the court. | | |
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| (4) Whenever security is taken under this section the officer to whom the warrant is directed shall forward the bond to the court. |
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| (5) A warrant of arrest shall ordinarily be directed to the officer in charge of the nearest police station but may be executed in any part of Sri Lanka by any police officer. |
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| (6) Where a police officer has reasonable grounds to believe that a person is one for whose arrest a warrant of arrest has been issued, he may arrest that person in execution of the warrant, notwithstanding that the warrant is not in his possession for the time being. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts