Hong Kong Ordinances

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ORDINANCE - SECT 9M

Forfeiture on failure to surrender to custody as shall have been appointed

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 39 of 1999 s. 3

(1) If a person admitted to bail fails, without reasonable cause, to
surrender to custody as shall have been appointed by a court, a court may,
whether or not that person has been convicted of an offence under
section 9L(1), order that the whole of part of any-

   (a)  recognizance of bail taken from a surety under section  9D (3)(a); or

   (b)  sum of money deposited with the court under section  9D (3)(b)(viii),
        for the purpose of securing his surrender to custody shall be
        forfeited to the Government. (Amended 39 of 1999 s. 3)

(2) Where a court makes an order under subsection (1), the payment of any sum
due as security for a recognizance of bail taken from a surety under
section 9D(3)(a) may be enforced as if it were a security to which section 64
of the Magistrates Ordinance ( Cap 227) applies. (Added 56 of 1994 s. 2)