FIFTH GROUP OF PARTSSentencing: miscellaneous provision and interpretation

PART 12Miscellaneous provision about sentencing

CHAPTER 5Recognizances

I1393Power of magistrates' court to dispense with recognizance

1

This section applies where under an enactment, whether passed before or after the commencement of this Act, an offender sentenced on summary conviction to imprisonment or a fine is required to enter into a recognizance with or without sureties to—

a

keep the peace, or

b

observe any other condition.

2

The magistrates' court which convicted the offender may dispense with or modify the requirement.

3

In subsection (1) “enactment” includes an enactment contained in a local Act or in any order, regulation or other instrument having effect by virtue of an Act.