Section 10 of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 applies the criminal procedure provisions on…

Section 10 provides that the listed provisions "shall, so far as may be, apply in the case of bonds and sureties given under this Act", that is, with such adaptation as the context of probation bonds requires. The listed provisions (formerly ss.122, 126, 126A, 406A, 514, 514A, 514B and 515 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898) are now read under s.8 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 as the corresponding provisions of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, for example s.140 (power to reject sureties), s.143 (security for unexpired period of bond), s.491 (procedure when bond has been forfeited) and s.493 (insolvency or death of surety). No sanction of the State Government is required, the section is not limited to offenders under twenty-one, and release after due admonition under s.3 involves no bond at all.