Article 5 Amendments to the Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981

After rule 90A, there shall be inserted the following new rule—

“Records to be kept where warrant is endorsed for bail

90B

(1)

Where a person is arrested and released on bail pursuant to a warrant endorsed for bail in accordance with section 117 of the Act of 1980, the person executing the warrant shall make a record stating the matters set out in paragraph (2) below.

(2)

Those matters are—

(a)

the name of the person arrested;

(b)

the offence or default with which the person arrested is charged and the reason for the arrest;

(c)

the fact that that person is to be released on bail;

(d)

the date, time and place at which that person is to appear before the court;

(e)

except in criminal proceedings, the amount if any in which that person is bound;

(f)

any other details which in the opinion of the person executing the warrant are relevant.

(3)

After making the record, the person executing the warrant shall—

(a)

sign the record;

(b)

invite the person arrested to sign the record;

(c)

if the person arrested refuses to sign the record, annotate the record to show the fact of that refusal;

(d)

make a copy of the record and give it to the person arrested;

(e)

send the original record to the justices' chief executive for the court which issued the warrant.”.