(1)Where a magistrates’ court has power to take any recognizance, the court may, instead of taking it, fix the amount in which the principal and his sureties, if any, are to be bound; and thereafter the recognizance may be taken by any such person as may be prescribed.
(2)Where, in pursuance of this section, a recognizance is entered into otherwise than before the court that fixed the amount of it, the same consequences shall follow as if it had been entered into before that court; and references in this or any other Act to the court before which a recognizance was entered into shall be construed accordingly.
(3)Nothing in this section shall enable a magistrates’ court to alter the amount of a recognizance fixed by the High Court [F1or the Crown Court].
Textual Amendments
F1Words added by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1) s. 77, Sch. 14 para. 55