{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-116",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-116.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/43",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980",
  "path": "section/116",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "116",
  "heading": "Discharge of recognizance to keep the peace or be of good behaviour on complaint of surety.",
  "text": "(1) On complaint being made to a justice of the peace . . . by a surety to a recognizance to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour entered into before a magistrates’ court that the person bound by the recognizance as principal has been, or is about to be, guilty of conduct constituting a breach of the conditions of the recognizance, the justice may. . . issue a warrant to arrest the principal and bring him before a magistrates’ court . . . or a summons requiring the principal to appear before such a court; but the justice shall not issue a warrant unless the complaint is in writing and substantiated on oath.\n(2) The magistrates’ court before which the principal appears or is brought in pursuance of such a summons or warrant as aforesaid may, unless it adjudges the recognizance to be forfeited, order the recognizance to be discharged and order the principal to enter into a new recognizance, with or without sureties, to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 116(1) repealed (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1)(3), 110, Sch. 8 para. 236(2), Sch.10; S.I. 2005/910 ,{art. 3(y)(aa)}"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 116(1) repealed (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1)(3), 110, Sch. 8 para. 236(2), Sch.10; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 116(1) repealed (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1)(3), 110, Sch. 8 para. 236(2), Sch.10; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 116(3) repealed (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1)(3), 110, Sch. 8 para. 236(3), Sch.10; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)(aa)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/43/section/116",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:26:47.197891+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."
}