{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2004/schedule-2/paragraph-65.7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1306",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2004",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/65.7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "65.7",
  "heading": "Recognizance",
  "text": "(1) Where, in accordance with paragraph 2(2)(b) of Schedule 15 to the 1996 Act, the court fixes the amount of any recognizance with a view to it being taken subsequently, the recognizance may be taken by—\n(a) a judge;\n(b) a justice of the peace;\n(c) a justices' clerk;\n(d) a police officer of the rank of inspector or above or in charge of a police station; or\n(e) where the arrested person is in his custody, the governor or keeper of a prison,\nwith the same consequences as if it had been entered into before the court.\n(2) The person having custody of an applicant for bail must release him if satisfied that the required recognizances have been taken.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1306/schedule/2/paragraph/65.7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:25:08.530401+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."
}