{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-conditional-release-from-custody-order-2009/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-conditional-release-from-custody-order-2009/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/991",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Conditional Release from Custody) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-conditional-release-from-custody-order-2009",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Bail - conditions and directions",
  "text": "(1) This article applies where a judge advocate grants a person bail subject to any conditions that shall be met before the person is released.\n(2) The judge advocate may direct how such a condition shall be met.\n(3) The court administration officer shall serve a certificate in the form set out as form 2 in the Schedule recording the condition and any such direction on—\n(a) the person granted bail;\n(b) the custodian; and\n(c) any other person directly affected by any such direction.\n(4) A person directly affected by any such direction need not comply with it until the court administration officer serves that person with that certificate.\n(5) Unless the judge advocate otherwise directs, if the condition or any such direction requires someone to enter into a recognizance, the recognizance shall be—\n(a) in the form set out as form 3 in the Schedule and signed before—\n(i) a judge advocate;\n(ii) the custodian; or\n(iii) someone acting with the authority of a judge advocate or the custodian;\n(b) copied immediately to the person who enters into it;\n(c) served immediately by the judge advocate on the custodian, or by the custodian on the judge advocate as appropriate.\n(6) Unless the judge advocate otherwise directs, if the condition or direction requires someone to make a payment, surrender a document or take some other step—\n(a) that payment, document or step shall be made, surrendered or taken to or before—\n(i) a judge advocate;\n(ii) the custodian; or\n(iii) someone acting with the authority of a judge advocate or the custodian;\n(b) the judge advocate or the custodian, as appropriate, shall serve immediately on the other a statement that the payment, document or step has been made, surrendered or taken, as appropriate.\n(7) The custodian shall release the person where it appears that any condition ordered by the judge advocate has been met.\n(8) Any record required by article 9 shall be made by including in a file relating to the case in question—\n(a) any certificate served under paragraph (3); and\n(b) a copy of the record of the decision made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/991/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:13:03.189477+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."
}