{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bail-act-1976/schedule-1/part-II/crossheading-exceptions-to-right-to-bail/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bail-act-1976/schedule-1/part-II/crossheading-exceptions-to-right-to-bail/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/63",
  "legislation_title": "Bail Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bail-act-1976",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/II/crossheading/exceptions-to-right-to-bail/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The defendant need not be granted bail if—\n(za) the defendant—\n(i) is a child or young person, or\n(ii) has been convicted in the proceedings of an offence;\n(a) it appears to the court that, having been previously granted bail in criminal proceedings, he has failed to surrender to custody in accordance with his obligations under the grant of bail; and\n(b) the court believes, in view of that failure, that the defendant, if released on bail (whether subject to conditions or not) would fail to surrender to custody.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 2(za) inserted (3.12.2012) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 11 para. 28; 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/II/crossheading/exceptions-to-right-to-bail/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}