I beg to move:—
Before Section 10 to insert a new section as follows:—
Every recognisance entered into by way of bail before a District Justice or a Justice of the District Court shall be in the following form, that is to say:—
Be it remembered that on the .....................day of ............... in the year of our Lord................ A.B., of .................. (labourer), C.D., of ................. (grocer), and E.F., of ................. (butcher), personally came before me the undersigned, a District Justice in Saorstát Eireann (or a Justice of the District Court of Saorstát Eireann) for the District of....................and severally acknowledged to themselves to owe to Saorstát Eireann the several sums following; that is to say, the said A.B. the sum of ...................., and the said C.D. and E.F. the sum of ................... each, to be made and levied of their several goods and chattels, lands and tenements respectively, to the use of the Minister for Finance of Saorstát Eireann, if he the said A.B. fail in the conditions endorsed. Taken and acknowledged the day and year first above mentioned, at............... ............... before me, ..............
The condition of the within-written recognizance is such, that whereas the said A.B. was this day charged before me, the Justice within mentioned for that (etc., as in the warrant); if, therefore, the said A.B. will appear at the next sitting of the Circuit District Court (or of the Circuit Court, or of the High Court or of the Central Criminal Court, as the case may be) to be holden in and for the District (or as the case may be) and there surrender himself into the custody of the keeper of the (common gaol) there, and plead to such indictment as may be preferred against him by the Attorney-General of Saorstát Eireann, and take his trial upon the same, and not depart the said Court without leave, then the said recognizance to be void, or else to stand in full force and virtue.
This new section is also necessary because of alterations following on the passing of the Courts of Justice Act, and Section 9 of the present Bill under which criminal charges should be prosecuted by the Attorney-General. It proposes that recognizances should be entered into by way of bail.
New section agreed to, and added to the Bill.