Section 26 Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984

Section 26 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 is about Repeal of statutory powers of arrest without warrant or order. It provides as follows:

(1)Subject to subsection (2) below, so much of any Act (including a local Act) passed before this Act as enables a constable—

(a)to arrest a person for an offence without a warrant; or

(b)to arrest a person otherwise than for an offence without a warrant or an order of a court,

shall cease to have effect.

(2)Nothing in subsection (1) above affects the enactments specified in Schedule 2 to this Act.

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