Section 182: Forfeiture on conviction

(1) Where a recognizance to keep the peace and be of good behaviour or not to do or commit some act or thing, has been entered into by a defendant as principal or as surety before a court, a court, on proof that the person bound by the recognizance as principal has been convicted of an offence which is by law a breach of the condition of the recognizance, may order that the:
(a) recognizance be forfeited; and
(b) persons bound by it, whether as principal or as sureties or any of those persons, shall pay the sums for which they are respectively bound.
(2) A certified copy of the judgment of the court by which the defendant was convicted of the offence may be used as evidence in proceedings under this section and, where the certified copy is so used, the court shall presume the defendant committed the offence until the contrary is proved.