6.—(1) For the purposes of section 95(2)(c) of the Code, an accused, who has been arrested or taken into custody under a warrant issued under section 10, 24 or 34 of the Extradition Act (Cap. 103) or endorsed under section 33 of that Act, may be released on bail if any of the following is satisfied:
(a)
the accused is a juvenile;
(b)
the accused is sick or infirm;
(c)
the foreign jurisdiction, which makes the requisition for the surrender of the accused, provides an undertaking that the foreign jurisdiction does not oppose the granting of bail to the accused on the conditions imposed under section 94 of the Code, and either or both of the following apply:
(i)
the accused would have been granted bail under the law of that foreign jurisdiction, if the accused had been apprehended in that foreign jurisdiction for the offence to which that requisition relates;
(ii)
the act or omission constituting the offence to which that requisition relates would, if it took place in or within Singapore, constitute a bailable offence.
[S 55/2019 wef 31/01/2019]
(2) A certificate given, or a declaration made, by a foreign jurisdiction or under the law of a foreign jurisdiction, certifying or declaring that, under the law of that foreign jurisdiction, the accused would have been granted bail, is admissible, in proceedings for the release of the accused on bail or on personal bond, as prima facie evidence of the matters stated in the certificate or declaration.
[S 55/2019 wef 31/01/2019]
(3) In this rule, “accused” includes a fugitive as defined in the Extradition Act.