{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bail-act-1976/schedule-1/part-I/paragraph-6A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bail-act-1976/schedule-1/part-I/paragraph-6A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/63",
  "legislation_title": "Bail Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bail-act-1976",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/I/paragraph/6A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to paragraph 6C below, a defendant who falls within paragraph 6B below may not be granted bail unless the court is of the opinion that there is no significant risk of his committing an offence while on bail (whether subject to conditions or not).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. 1 paras. 6A-6C and headings inserted (5.4.2004) by Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), ss. 19(4)(a), 336(3)(4) (with s. 141); S.I. 2004/829, art. 2(1)(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 6A substituted (3.12.2012) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 11 para. 18; 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/6A",
    "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."
}