{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-rules-northern-ireland-1979/rule-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-rules-northern-ireland-1979/rule-12.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1979/90",
  "legislation_title": "The Crown Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-court-rules-northern-ireland-1979",
  "path": "rule/12",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Manner in which recognizance is to be entered into",
  "text": "(1) A recognizance may be entered into or security given before a person specified in rule 11(1) on the production to him of a copy of the order admitting the defendant to bail with or without sureties of such number and amount as the Court may direct.\n[(1A A person specified in rule 11(1) before whom a recognizance may be entered into may require, a person offering himself as surety to a recognizance to produce evidence as to his means and as to his identity and place of abode and to sign a certificate that he is possessed of sufficient means to pay the sum in which he is to be bound under the recognizance.\n(1B) Such certificate shall be attached to or endorsed on the recognizance.]\n(2) Where, in pursuance of an order of the Court, a recognizance is entered into or other security given before any person, it shall be his duty to cause the recognizance or, as the case may be, a statement of the other security given to be transmitted forthwith to the chief clerk; and a copy of the recognizance or statement shall at the same time be sent to the governor or keeper of the prison or other place of detention in which the person named in the order was detained, unless the recognizance was entered into or other security given before such governor or keeper.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rules 12(1A) and 12(1B) inserted by S.R. 2000 No. 227 with effect from 21.08.00"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1979/90/rule/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:01:57.370490+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."
}