{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bail-act-1976/schedule-1/part-I/paragraph-2A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bail-act-1976/schedule-1/part-I/paragraph-2A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/63",
  "legislation_title": "Bail Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bail-act-1976",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/I/paragraph/2A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The defendant need not be granted bail if—\n(a) the offence is an indictable offence or an offence triable either way, and\n(b) it appears to the court that the defendant was on bail in criminal proceedings on the date of the offence.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 2A substituted (3.12.2012) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 11 para. 16; S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2025/33",
      "affecting_title": "Mental Health Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/63/schedule/1/part/I/paragraph/2A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:27:48.662895+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."
}