{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-bail-1978/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1978/251",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment) (Bail) 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-bail-1978",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Order 59, rule 20, shall be amended as follows:—\n(1) In paragraph (4) for the words “Order 79, rule 9(6) and (8)” there shall be substituted the words “Order 79, rule 9(6), (6A), (6B) and (8)” and after the words “Court of Appeal” where they first appear there shall be inserted the words “in a case of criminal contempt of court”.\n(2) At the end there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:—\n“(5) When granting bail under this Rule in a case of civil contempt of court, the Court of Appeal may order that the recognizance or other security to be given by the appellant or the recognizance of any surety shall be given before any person authorised by virtue of section 95(1) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 to take a recognizance where a magistrates' court having power to take it has, instead of taking it, fixed the amount in which the principal and his sureties, if any, are to be bound.\nAn order by the Court of Appeal granting bail as aforesaid must be in Form 98 in Appendix A with the necessary adaptations.\n(6) Where in pursuance of an order of the Court of Appeal under paragraph (5) of this Rule a recognizance is entered into or other security given before any person, it shall be the duty of that person to cause the recognizance of the appellant or any surety or, as the case may be, a statement of the other security given, to be transmitted forthwith to the clerk of the court which committed the appellant; and a copy of such 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 appellant is detained, unless the recognizance or security was given before such governor or keeper.\n(7) The jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal under section 13 of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 to hear and determine any appeal from an order or decision of the Crown Court dealing with an offence under section 6 of the Bail Act 1976 as if it were a contempt of court shall be exercised by the criminal division of the Court of Appeal.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/251/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:40:00.328469+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."
}