(2) A person arrested in terms of subsection (1) shall be informed forthwith by the person arresting him of the cause of the arrest. 128 Release of sureties and death of surety (1) All or any sureties for the attendance and appearance of an accused person released on bail may at any time apply to the judge or magistrate before whom the recognizance was entered into to discharge the recognizance, either wholly or so far as relates to the applicants. (2) On an application in terms of subsection (1), the judge or magistrate shall issue a warrant of arrest directing that the accused be brought before him. (3) On the appearance of the accused pursuant to the warrant or on his voluntary surrender, the judge or magistrate shall direct the recognizances to be discharged, either wholly or so far as relates to the applicants, and shall call upon the accused to find other sufficient sureties, and if he fails to do so may commit him to prison. (4) When a surety to a recognizance dies before any forfeiture has been incurred, his estate shall be discharged from all liability in respect of the recognizance, but the accused may be required to find a new surety. 129 Rendering in court The sureties may bring the accused into the court at which he is bound to appear during any sitting thereof, and then, by leave of the court, render him in discharge of such recognizance at any time before sentence, and the accused shall be committed to a prison there to remain until discharged by due course of law but such court may admit the accused person to bail for his appearance at any time it thinks fit. 130 Sureties not discharged until sentence or discharge of accused The pleading or conviction of any accused person released on bail in terms of this Part shall not discharge the recognizance, but the same shall be effectual for his appearance during the trial and until sentence is passed or he is discharged: Provided that the court may commit the accused to a prison upon his trial or may require new or additional sureties for his appearance for trial or sentence, as the case may be, notwithstanding such recognizance, and such commitment shall be a discharge of the sureties. 131 Deposit instead of recognizance (1) When any person is required by any judge or magistrate to enter into recognizances, with or without sureties, under this Act, such judge or magistrate may, except in the case of a bond for good behaviour, instead of causing such recognizances to be entered into, permit him or some person on his behalf to deposit a sum of money or Government securities or other property of any description whatsoever acceptable to the Attorney-General to such amount as the judge or magistrate may fix. (2) Conditions in writing shall be made in respect of any deposit in terms of subsection (1) of money, secu rities or property of the same nature as the conditions prescribed by this Part in respect of recognizances, and all the provisions of this Part prescribing the circumstances in which recognizances taken from the accused or an appellant, as the case may be, alone shall be forfeited, his arrest if about to abscond and remission of forfeited bail shall apply, mutatis mutandis, in respect of any such deposit of money, securities or property. 132 Admission to bail by police (1) Except where the charge against an accused person is one of the offences specified in the Fifth Schedule, any police officer of or above the rank of assistant inspector, or a police officer of whatever rank in charge of a police station, may, at a police station and at such times as no judicial officer is available, admit to bail an accused person who makes or on whose behalf is made a deposit of such sum of money as such police officer may in the particular circumstances fix. (2) The provisions of section one hundred and thirty-one as to conditions, forfeiture and remission of forfeited bail shall apply, mutatis mutandis, in respect of any deposit of money made under subsection (1). 133 Provision in case of default in conditions of recognizance If it appears to the judge or magistrate who admitted the accused to bail that default has been made in any condition of the recognizance or if it appears to a judge or magistrate of the court before which an accused person has to appear in terms of any recognizance that default has been made in any condition of such recognizance, such judge or magistrate may— (a) issue an order declaring the recognizance forfeited and such order shall have the effect of a judgment on the recognizance for the amounts therein named against the person admitted to bail and his sureties respectively; (b) issue a warrant for the arrest of the person admitted to bail and afterwards, upon being satisfied that the ends of justice would otherwise be defeated, commit him when so arrested to prison until his trial. 134 Remission of bail The Attorney-General may, in his discretion, remit the whole or any portion of any amount forfeited under section ninety-seven or this Part and may, where a portion of such amount has been remitted, enforce payment in part only.