Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (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).]