# Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, Section 119: Postponement of taking recognizance.


(1) Where a magistrates’ court has power to take any recognizance, the court may, instead of taking it, fix the amount in which the principal and his sureties, if any, are to be bound; and thereafter the recognizance may be taken by any such person as may be prescribed.
(2) Where, in pursuance of this section, a recognizance is entered into otherwise than before the court that fixed the amount of it, the same consequences shall follow as if it had been entered into before that court; and references in this or any other Act to the court before which a recognizance was entered into shall be construed accordingly.
(3) Nothing in this section shall enable a magistrates’ court to alter the amount of a recognizance fixed by the High Court or the Crown Court.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/43/section/119 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-119
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