(1)Any agreement (whether made before, on or after the2021312021 date of commencement of section 24 of the Criminal Justice Reform Act2021October2021 2018) indemnifying or purporting to indemnify any person against any liability which that person may incur as a surety to a bail bond is void.
Section history
Section 106A — Prohibition against agreements to indemnify surety, etc.
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
(2)Any person who, on or after the2021312021 date of commencement of section 24 of the Criminal Justice Reform Act2021October2021 2018, knowingly enters into an agreement mentioned in subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both.
(3)An offence under subsection (2) is committed —
(a)whether the agreement is entered into before or after the person to be indemnified becomes a surety;
(b)whether or not the person to be indemnified becomes a surety; and
(c)whether the agreement contemplates compensation in money or money’s worth.