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138.—(1) Without prejudice to Article 151, where the condition of a recognizance is to appear at the Crown Court or county court the recognizance shall be liable upon breach of that condition to be estreated by that court; otherwise recognizances entered into before, or in connection with, proceedings pending in or before a magistrates' court may, without prejudice to any other mode of enforcement, be enforced by a court of summary jurisdiction.
[F1(2) Paragraphs (2A) and (2B) apply where—
(a)a recognizance to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour or to keep the peace and be of good behaviour has been entered into before a magistrates' court; or
(b)it is a condition of any recognizance that a person appears before a magistrates' court or at a police station; or
(c)any other recognizance may be enforced by a court of summary jurisdiction.
(2A) If, in the case of a recognizance a condition of which is that an accused appears before a magistrates' court, the accused fails to appear in accordance with the condition, the court shall—
(a)order the estreat of the recognizance; and
(b)direct the issue of a summons to any surety for that person requiring the surety to appear before a court of summary jurisdiction on a date specified in the summons to show cause why he should not pay the sum in which he is bound;
and on that date the court may proceed in the absence of any surety if it is satisfied that he has been served with the summons.
(2B) If, in any other case falling within paragraph (2), the recognizance appears to the magistrates' court to be forfeited, the court may order the estreat of the recognizance on each person bound by it, whether as principal or surety, but, in a case falling within paragraph (2)(a), the court shall not order the estreat of the recognizance except on complaint.
(3) The power of the court under paragraph (2A) or (2B) to order the estreat of the recognizance includes power to order the estreat of the recognizance to such lesser amount as the court thinks fit and power to remit payment of the amount due under the recognizance.]
(4) Upon ordering the estreat of a recognizance the court may issue a warrant—
(a)to levy the amount forfeited by distress and sale of the property of any person bound by the recognizance, and
(b)in default of distress to commit such person to prison as if for default in the payment of a sum adjudged to be paid by a conviction;
and accordingly the period for which such person may be committed shall not exceed that specified in Schedule 3.
(5) Nothing in this Article shall prejudice the power of a magistrates' court to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person who, in breach of his recognizance, has failed to appear before the court.
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