{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-43.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/43",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980",
  "path": "section/43",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Bail on arrest.",
  "text": "(1) Where a person has been granted bail under Part IV of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 subject to a duty to appear before a magistrates’ court, the court before which he is to appear may appoint a later time as the time at which he is to appear and may enlarge the recognizances of any sureties for him at that time.\n(2) The recognizance of any surety for any person granted bail subject to a duty to attend at a police station may be enforced as if it were conditioned for his appearance before a magistrates’ court acting in the local justice area in which the police station named in the recognizance is situated.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 43 substituted by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), ss. 47(8)(a), 51, 52"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 43(1) inserted (10.4.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 168(2), Sch. 10 para.43; S.I. 1995/721, art. 2, Sch. AppendixA"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 43(2) substituted (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), ss. 109(1), 110, Sch. 8 para. 206; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/43/section/43",
    "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."
}