Magistrates Court Act 1930—Form 30
(see s 77 and s 103)
Recognisance to give evidence

Australian Capital Territory, 
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BE it remembered that on the                          day of                          , 20     , CD, of                                       , in the Territory,                                           , came before [me] a magistrate of the Territory, and acknowledged [himself or herself] to owe to the Crown the sum of                            to be made and levied of [his or her] goods and chattels, lands, and tenements, to the use of the Crown if CD shall fail in the conditions endorsed.
Taken and acknowledged before [me] the day and year first abovementioned at Canberra, in the Territory.
	[Signature]
	Magistrate

Condition
THE condition of the withinwritten recognisance is such that whereas AB, was this day charged before the Magistrates Court at Canberra, for that [etc as in the caption of the depositions]. If therefore CD shall appear at the next sittings of the Supreme Court, to be holden at                                       in the
                                        , on                                , the                               day of                                , 20  , and there give evidence upon an information to be then preferred against AB for the offence aforesaid, then the recognisance to be void, or else to stand in full force and effect.

Endnotes
1	This form was originally in the Magistrates Court Act 1930 (the authorising Act), schedule 1.  Under amendments made by the Legislation (Consequential Amendments) Act 2001, the form was omitted from the authorising Act and became a form approved under section 256 of that Act (see amdts 1.2764 and 1.2769). 
2	Under the Court Procedures Act 2004 A2004-58, pt 8, this form became a form approved under that Act.
3	This republication includes amendments made under the Legislation Act, part 11.3 (Editorial changes).

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