Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132:section:20aa:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 20AA (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 929550–931325

surety:
 (a) if the recognizance is varied by extending its duration—the surety ceases to be liable after the expiration of the period for which he or she agreed to be liable when he or she became a surety;
 (b) if the recognizance is varied by altering a condition—the surety is not liable in respect of non‑compliance with that condition as altered; and
 (c) if the recognizance is altered by the addition of a condition—the surety is not liable in respect of non‑compliance with the additional condition;
unless he or she agrees to be liable in respect of the recognizance as so varied.
 (10) Where under this section a court varies the terms of a recognizance in respect of which a person is a surety by altering a condition, the court shall give directions as to the extent (if any) to which the surety is to continue to be liable in respect of the condition as it existed before the alteration, and the surety continues to be liable in respect of the condition to that extent but not otherwise.
 (11) Where under this section a court varies the terms of a recognizance:
 (a) corresponding variations shall, by force of this subsection, be deemed to have been made to the conditions of the order in pursuance of which the recognizance was entered into; and
 (b) section 20A applies to and in relation to the order, in respect of acts or things done or omitted to be done after the variation, as if references in that section to the conditions of the order were references to the conditions of the order as so deemed to be varied.
 (12) In this section, authorized person means the Attorney‑General, the Director of Public Prosecutions or a person appointed under section 69 of the Judiciary Act 1903 to prosecute indictable offences against the laws of the Commonwealth.