{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bail-act-1976/schedule-4/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bail-act-1976/schedule-4/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/63",
  "legislation_title": "Bail Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bail-act-1976",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where, before the appointed day, a court has—\n(a) given a direction that the recognizance of a person to whom it has granted bail may be entered into before another court or any person, or\n(b) endorsed a warrant for the arrest of a person with a direction that he be released on his entering into such a recognizance as is specified in the endorsement,\nthe recognizance may be entered into and taken after the appointed day in accordance with the direction and paragraph 1 above shall apply to such a recognizance as it applies to a recognizance entered into before the appointed day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/63/schedule/4/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."
}