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BAIL ACT 1982 - SECT 35

35 .         Surety and surety undertaking

        (1)         A surety is a person who, as a condition of the grant of bail to an accused, enters into a surety undertaking, that is to say, undertakes in writing that he will, subject to this Act, forfeit a specified amount of money if the accused fails to comply with any requirement of his bail undertaking mentioned in section 28(2)(a) and (b).

        (2)         A surety is required to be approved under section 40.

        (3)         A forfeiture of money by a surety as mentioned in subsection (1) is enforceable as provided in section 49 but not otherwise.

        [Section 35 amended: No. 84 of 2004 s. 82; No. 6 of 2008 s. 18(3).]



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