{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-4A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-4A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/46",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Justice Act 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1956",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/4A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In any proceedings in the High Court under this Part of this Schedule, bail may be taken to answer the judgment of the High Court (or of the Court of Appeal or Supreme Court on an appeal from that judgment) and the High Court may withhold the release of any property under its arrest until such bail has been given.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Para. 4A inserted by Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 23), s. 123(2), Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 4A substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 40(4), 148(1), Sch. 9 para. 8; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/46/schedule/FIRST/paragraph/4A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:14:38.801549+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}