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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 137

Conditions on admission to bail.

137.(1) Any magistrates' court or member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary may
accept or authorise the acceptance of the deposit of a sum of money or other
valuable security in lieu of sureties for the due performance of the
conditions of a recognizance.

(2) Where a court of summary jurisdiction estreats the recognizance, it may
order the forfeiture of the whole or any part of any sum of money or other
valuable security deposited under subsection (1).

(3) The amount of the sum deposited or the valuable security shall be
specified in the recognizance.

(4) Where the condition of the recognizance is duly performed the sum or
security shall be repaid or returned to the person who deposited it.


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