Section 124, The Criminal Procedure Act, 2024

(1) Where the condition of a recognisance entered intois not complied with, the Court in or before which such condition ought to be performed, may endorse thereon a certificate, addressed to the Sheriff or other officer of the Court, setting forth that such condition has not been performed, and if the amount of the recognisance is not paid within 30 days after service of an order and notice to do so, the amount of the recognisance shall be recoverable by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the recognisor. (2) In default of the amount being recovered by distress and sale under subsection (1), the recognisor may be imprisoned for a period not exceeding 60 days, but the Court in or before which the condition of a recognisance ought to be performed may cancel or mitigate the forfeiture upon such terms and conditions as the Court may think just. (3) The Court may, where it is made to appear, by information on oath, that a person bound by recognisance is about to go out of Sierra Leone, cause him to be arrested and commit him to a correctional centre until the trial, unless the Court shall see fit to admit him to bail upon further recognisance.