Hong Kong Ordinances

MAGISTRATES ORDINANCE - SECT 63

Recognizance taken out of court

When a magistrate has fixed, as respects any recognizance, the amount in which
the principal and the sureties, if any, are to be bound, the recognizance,
notwithstanding anything in this or any past enactment, need not be entered
into before such magistrate, but may, subject to rules made under section 133,
be entered into by the parties before another magistrate or before the
magistrates' clerk or before a superintendent or inspector of police or, where
any of the parties is in prison, before the Commissioner of Correctional
Services; and thereupon all the consequences of law shall ensue and the
provisions of this Ordinance with respect to recognizances taken before a
magistrate shall apply as if the recognizance had been entered into before a
magistrate as heretofore by law required. (See Forms 6-9) [cf. 1879 c. 49 s.
42 U.K.]