Criminal Procedure Act, 1967

Endorsement on warrants as to release on bail.

30.—(1) A justice of the District Court or a peace commissioner on issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person may, if he thinks fit, by endorsement on the warrant, direct that the person named in the warrant be on arrest released on his entering into such a recognisance, with or without sureties, for his appearance as may be specified in the endorsement, and the endorsement shall fix the amounts in which that person and his sureties (if any) are to be bound.

(2) Where such an endorsement is made, the sergeant or other member of the Gárda Síochána in charge of any station to which on arrest the person named in the warrant is brought shall discharge him upon his entering into a recognisance, with or without sureties approved by that member, in accordace with the endorsement.