Bailing accused person after committal for trial

(1) If an accused person who is entitled to be admitted to bail, or if an accused person whom the magistrate has power to bail and who, in his opinion, ought to be bailed, is committed to prison only because he does not, at the time of his committal for trial, procure a sufficient surety or sureties for appearing to take his trial, the magistrate shall indorse on the warrant of commitment, or on a separate paper, a certificate of his consent to the accused person being bailed, and shall state the amount of bail which ought to be required, and any magistrate shall, on the production of that certificate, admit him to bail accordingly and order him to be discharged by a warrant of deliverance. (2) The examining magistrate shall, if required at any time before the trial, by or on behalf of the accused person, make and sign one or more duplicate copies of the certificate and, on the production of a duplicate to any justice of the peace, the justice may take the recognisance of one or more sureties in conformity therewith, and shall thereupon transmit the recognisance to the magistrate of the district in which the accused person was committed. (3) When the recognisances of all the sureties required have been received, the committing magistrate shall issue his warrant of deliverance to the keeper, requiring him to take the recognisance of the accused person and to discharge him, and the keeper is hereby authorised to take that recognisance, and shall forthwith do so and discharge the accused person, unless he is in his custody for some other reason.