http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/part/IV/1998-12-01Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982An Act to make provision as regards Scotland for the licensing and regulation of certain activities; for the preservation of public order and safety and the prevention crime; for prohibiting the taking of and dealing with indecent photographs of children; as to certain powers of constables and others; as to lost and abandoned property and property in the possession of persons taken into police custody; as to the rights and duties of the owners and users of certain land, buildings and other structures; as to the making by local authorities of byelaws; and to enable them to make management rules applying to land or premises under their control; as to certain other functions of local authorities and their officers; as to the time when the Burgh Police (Scotland) Acts 1892 to 1911 and certain local statutory provisions cease to have effect; and for connected purposes.]1982-11-01texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-09-091998-12-01 Part IV Offences, Powers of Constables, <Abbreviation Expansion="et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc.</Abbreviation> Offences of annoying, offensive, obstructive or dangerous behaviour Soliciting and importuning by prostitutes.461A prostitute (whether male or female) who for the purposes of prostitution—aloiters in a public place;bsolicits in a public place or in any other place so as to be seen from a public place; orcimportunes any person who is in a public place,shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.2In subsection (1) above, “public place” has the same meaning as in section 133 of this Act but includes—aany place to which at the material time the public are permitted to have access, whether on payment or otherwise; andbany public conveyance other than a taxi or hire car within the meaning of section 23 of this Act. Urinating etc.47Any person who urinates or defecates in such circumstances as to cause, or to be likely to cause, annoyance to any other person shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale. Dogs: fouling of pavements.481Subject to subsection (2) and (3) below, any person in charge of a dog who allows it to deposit its excrement upon—aa footpath or footway;ba grass verge maintained by a local authority and situated adjacent to a footpath or footway;ca pedestrian precinct maintained by a local authority;dany place maintained by a local authority and used exclusively as a children’s play area; oreany place maintained by a local authority and used for recreational or sporting purposes being a place in relation to which this section applies by virtue of subsection (2) below,shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.2This section applies in relation to a place, being a place referred to in subsection (1)(e) above, only if a notice stating that this section applies to it and the effect of such application is displayed at the entrance to that place or elsewhere so that it may be seen by members of the public intending to have access to the place.3This section shall not apply to a blind person in charge of a dog kept and used solely for his guidance or to a stockperson in charge of a working dog being used for droving livestock.4In this section “footpath” and “footway” have the same meanings as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984. Dangerous and annoying creatures.491Any person who suffers or permits any creature in his charge to cause danger or injury to any other person who is in a public place or to give such person reasonable cause for alarm or annoyance shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.2A district court may, if satisfied that any creature kept in the vicinity of any place where a person resides is giving that person, while in that place, reasonable cause for annoyance, make an order requiring the person keeping the creature to take, within such period as may be specified in the order, such steps (short of destruction of the creature) to prevent the continuance of the annoyance as may be so specified.3An application to a district court for an order under subsection (2) above may be made by any person.4Any person who fails to comply with an order under subsection (2) above shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.5The fact that there is a licence under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 in respect of a creature shall not of itself afford a defence in proceedings under this section relating to that creature.6Where a court convicts a person of an offence under this section or discharges him absolutely or makes a probation order in relation to him, it may, whether or not (in the case of conviction) it imposes a penalty under subsection (1) or (4) above—asubject to subsection (8) below, make such order as it sees fit as to the disposal of the creature to which the proceedings relate;bauthorise a constable, in pursuance of such an order, to take possession of the creature.7An order under subsection (6) above may, subject to any enactment relating to the protection or conservation of living things, be for the destruction of the creature to which it relates.8No creature disposed of under an order under subsection (6) above shall be given or sold for the purposes of vivisection. Drunkenness.501Any person who, while not in the care or protection of a suitable person, is, in a public place, drunk and incapable of taking care of himself shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.2Any person who is drunk in a public place while in charge of a child under the age of 10 shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.3For the purposes of subsection (2) above, if a child appears to the court to be under the age of 10, the child shall be deemed to be under that age unless the contrary is proved.4A constable may arrest a person for contravening subsection (2) above if he has reasonable cause to believe that the child in the charge of that person is under the age of 10.5Any person who is drunk in a public place while in possession of a firearm (including a crossbow, airgun, air rifle or air pistol) shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.6In this section, “public place” has the same meaning as in section 133 of this Act but includes—aany place to which at the material time the public are permitted to have access, whether on payment or otherwise; andbany public conveyance other than a taxi or hire car within the meaning of section 23 of this Act. Obscene material.511Subject to subsection (4) below, any person who displays any obscene material in any public place or in any other place where it can be seen by the public shall be guilty of an offence under this section.2Subject to subsection (4) below, any person who publishes, sells or distributes or, with a view to its eventual sale or distribution, makes, prints, has or keeps any obscene material shall be guilty of an offence under this section.2ASubject to subsection (4) below, any person who—ais responsible for the inclusion of any obscene material in a programme included in a programme service; orbwith a view to its eventual inclusion in a programme so included, makes, prints, has or keeps any obscene material,shall be guilty of an offence under this section.3A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the prescribed sum or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 6 monthsor to both or, on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 yearsor to both.4A person shall not be convicted of an offence under this section if he proves that he had used all due diligence to avoid committing the offence.5Under an indictment for or on a complaint of a breach of subsection (1) above, the court may, if satisfied that the person accused is guilty of an offence under section 1(1) of the Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981 (offence of public display of indecent matter), convict him of a breach of the said section 1(1).6Nothing in this section applies in relation to any matter—a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bincluded in a performance of a play (within the meaning of the Theatres Act 1968).7For section 5(4)(b) of the Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981 (saving) there shall be substituted the following—bsection 51 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982.8In this section—material” includes any book, magazine, bill, paper, print, film, tape, disc or other kind of recording (whether of sound or visual images or both), photograph, drawing, painting, representation, model or figure . . . ;photograph” includes the negative as well as the positive version;public place” has the same meaning as in section 133 of this Act except that it includes any place to which at the material time the public are permitted to have access, whether on payment or otherwise;prescribed sum” has the same meaning as in section 225(8) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995;programme” and “programme service” have the same meaning as in the Broadcasting Act 1990;and the reference to publishing includes a reference to . . . playing, projecting or otherwise reproducing , or, where the material is data stored electronically, transmitting that data. Indecent photographs etc. of children.521Any person who—atakes, or permits to be taken or makes, any indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a childbdistributes or shows such an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph;chas in his possession such an indecent photograph or pseudo-photographwith a view to its being distributed or shown by himself or others: ordpublishes or causes to be published any advertisement likely to be understood as conveying that the advertiser distributes or shows such an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph, or intends to do soshall be guilty of an offence under this section.2In subsection (1) above “child” means, subject to subsection (2B) below, a person under the age of 16; andIn proceedings under this section a person is to be taken as having been a child at any material time if it appears from the evidence as a whole that he was then under the age of 16.2AIn this section, “pseudo-photograph” means an image, whether produced by computer-graphics or otherwise howsoever, which appears to be a photograph.2BIf the impression conveyed by a pseudo-photograph is that the person shown is a child, the pseudo-photograph shall be treated for all purposes of this Act as showing a child and so shall a pseudo-photograph where the predominant impression conveyed is that the person shown is a child notwithstanding that some of the physical characteristics shown are those of an adult.2CIn this section, references to an indecent pseudo-photograph include—aa copy of an indecent pseudo-photograph;bdata stored on a computer disc or by other electronic means which is capable of conversion into a pseudo-photograph.3A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable—aon summary conviction, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 6 months or to a fine not exceeding the prescribed sum within the meaning of section 225(8) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (at the passing of this Act £1,000) or to both;bon conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 years or to a fine or to both.4For the purposes of this section, a person is to be regarded as distributing an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph if he parts with possession of it to, or exposes or offers it for acquisition by, another person.5Where a person is charged with an offfence under subsection (1)(b) or (c) above, it shall be a defence for him to prove—athat he had a legitimate reason for distributing or showing the photograph or pseudo-photograph or (as the case may be) having it in his possession; orbthat he had not himself seen the photograph or pseudo-photograph and did not know, nor had any cause to suspect, it to be indecent.6In paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the Visiting Forces Act 1952 (offences against the person in the case of which a member of a visiting force is in certain circumstances not liable to be tried by a United Kingdom court) the word “ and” immediately preceding sub-paragraph (b)(iii) shall be omitted and after the said sub-paragraph (b)(iii) there shall be added—ivsection 52(1)(a) of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982.7References in the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (except in sections 171 and 368 thereof) and in Part III of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (children in need of compulsory measures of care) to the offences mentioned in Schedule 1 to that Act shall include an offence under subsection (1)(a) above.8In this section—areferences to an indecent photograph include an indecent film, a copy of an indecent photograph or film and an indecent photograph comprised in a film;ba photograph (including one comprised in a film) shall, if it shows a child and is indecent, be treated for all purposes of this section as an indecent photograph of a child;creferences to a photograph include—ithe negative as well as the positive version; andiidata stored on a computer disc or by other electronic means which is capable of conversion into a photograph.dfilm” includes any form of video-recording.<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431"> Possession of indecent photographs of children.</Addition>52A1It is an offence for a person to have any indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child in his possession.2Where a person is charged with an offence under subsection (1), it shall be a defence for him to prove—athat he had a legitimate reason for having the photograph or pseudo-photograph in his possession; orbthat he had not himself seen the photograph or pseudo-photograph and did not know, nor had any cause to suspect, it to be indecent; orcthat the photograph or pseudo-photograph was sent to him without any prior request made by him or on his behalf and that he did not keep it for an unreasonable time.3A person shall be liable on summary conviction of an offence under this section to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 6 months or toa fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale “or to both.”.4Subsections (2) to (2C) and (8) of section 52 of this Act shall have effect for the purposes of this section as they have for the purposes of that section. Obstruction by pedestrians.53Any person who, being on foot in any public place—aobstructs, along with another or others, the lawful passage of any other person and fails to desist on being required to do so by a constable in uniform, orbwilfully obstructs the lawful passage of any other personshall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale. Playing instruments, singing, playing radios, etc.541Any person who—asounds or plays any musical instrument;bsings or performs; orcoperates any radio or television receiver, record player, tape-recorder or other sound producing deviceso as to give any other person reasonable cause for annoyance and fails to desist on being required to do so by a constable in uniform, shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £50.2This section is without prejudice to any offence under section 62 of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 (operation of loudspeakers in streets).2AWhere a constable reasonably suspects that an offence under subsection (1) above has been committed in relation to a musical instrument or in relation to such a device as is mentioned in paragraph (c) of that subsection, he may enter any premises on which he reasonably suspects that instrument or device to be and seize any such instrument or device he finds there.2BA constable may use reasonable force in the exercise of the power conferred by subsection (2A) above.2CSchedule 2A to this Act (which makes provision in relation to the retention and disposal of property seized under subsection (2A) above) shall have effect.3Subsection (1) above shall not apply to the operation of a loudspeaker—afor police, fire brigade or ambulance purposes, by a water authority in the exercise of any of its functions, or by a local authority within its area;bfor communicating with persons on a vessel for the purpose of directing the movement of that or any other vessel;cif the loudspeaker forms part of a public telephone system;dif the loudspeaker—iis in or fixed to a vehicle, andiiis operated solely for the entertainment of or for communicating with the driver or a passenger of the vehicle or, where the loudspeaker is or forms part of the horn or similar warning instrument of the vehicle, solely for giving warning to other traffic, andiiiis so operated as not to give reasonable cause for annoyance to persons in the vicinity;eotherwise than on a road, by persons employed in connection with a transport undertaking used by the public in a case where the loudspeaker is operated solely for making announcements to passengers or prospective passengers or to other persons so employed;fby a travelling showman on land which is being used for the purposes of a pleasure fair;gin case of emergency.In this subsection, “water authority” has the meaning assigned by section 3 of the Water (Scotland) Act 1980. Touting.551Any person who—ain a public place—itouts for the purpose of selling or advertising anything or otherwise obtaining custom so as to give any other person reasonable cause for annoyance; oriiimportunes any other person for that purpose so as to give that, or any other, person reasonable cause for annoyance; andbfails to desist when required to do so by a constable in uniform,shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale. Fires.56Any person who lays or lights a fire in a public place so as to endanger any other person or give him reasonable cause for alarm or annoyance or so as to endanger any property shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale. Preventive offences Being in or on building etc. with intent to commit theft.571Any person who, without lawful authority to be there, is found in or on a building or other premises, whether enclosed or not, or in its curtilage or in a vehicle or vessel so that, in all the circumstances, it may reasonably be inferred that he intended to commit theft there shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 months or to both.2In this section “theft” includes any aggravation of theft including robbery. Convicted thief in possession.581Any person who, being a person to whom this section applies—ahas or has recently had in his possession any tool or other object from the possession of which it may reasonably be inferred that he intended to commit theft or has committed theft; andbis unable to demonstrate satisfactorily that his possession of such tool or other object is or was not for the purposes of committing theftshall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 months or to both.2For the purposes of subsection (1) above, a person shall have recently had possession of a tool or other object if he had possession of it within 14 days before the date of—ahis arrest without warrant for the offence of having so possessed it in contravention of subsection (1) above; orbthe issue of a warrant for his arrest for that offence; orcif earlier, the service upon him of the first complaint alleging that he has committed that offence.3Where a court convicts a person of an offence under this section or discharges him absolutely or makes a probation order in relation to him in respect of such an offence it may order the forfeiture of any tool or other object in respect of the possession of which he was convicted or discharged absolutely, or, as the case may be, the probation order was made.4This section applies to a person who has two or more convictions for theft which are not, for the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, spent convictions.5In this section “theft” includes any aggravation of theft including robbery. Powers of constables etc. Powers of arrest and apprehension.591Subject to subsection (2) below, a constable may, where it is necessary in the interests of justice to do so, arrest without warrant a person whom he finds committing an offence to which this section applies or a person who is delivered into his custody in pursuance of subsection (3) below.2A constable who is not in uniform shall produce his identification if required to do so by any person whom he is arresting under subsection (1) above.3The owner, tenant or occupier of any property in, upon, or in respect of, which an offence to which this section applies is being committed or any person authorised by him may apprehend any person whom the owner or, as the case may be, the tenant, occupier or authorised person finds committing that offence and detain the apprehended person until he can be delivered into the custody of a constable.In this subsection “property” means heritable or moveable property.4This section applies to offences under sections 50, 57 and 58 of this Act.5This section shall not prejudice any power of arrest conferred by law apart from this section. Powers of search and seizure.601Subject to subsection (2) and (3) below, if a constable has reasonable grounds to suspect that a person is in possession of any stolen property, the constable may without warrant—asearch that person or anything in his possession, and detain him for as long as is necessary for the purpose of that search;benter and search any vehicle or vessel in which the constable suspects that that thing may be found, and for that purpose require the person in control of the vehicle or vessel to stop it and keep it stopped;center and search any premises occupied by a second-hand dealer or a metal dealer for the purposes of his business;dseize and detain anything found in the course of any such search which appears to the constable to have been stolen or to be evidence of the commission of the crime of theftand may, in doing so, use reasonable force.In this subsection “second-hand dealer” and “metal dealer” have the meanings respectively assigned to them by sections 24(2) and 37(1) of this Act.2The power under subsection (1)(b) above to require the person in charge of a vehicle or vessel to stop it shall be exercisable only by a constable in uniform.3A constable who is not in uniform shall not be entitled to exercise the powers which he may exercise under subsection (1)(a) to (c) above until he has produced his identification—ain relation to the exercise of powers under subsection (1)(a) above, to the person in respect of whom the powers are exercised;bin relation to the exercise of powers under subsections (1)(b) or (c) above, to the person for the time being in charge of the vehicle, vessel or premises and to any other person in or on the vehicle, vessel or premises who, having reasonable cause to do so, requests to see it.4In subsection (1) above “theft” includes any aggravation of theft including robbery.5Nothing in section 54(2A) of this Act or this section prejudices any power of entry or search or any power to seize or detain property or any power to require any vehicle or vessel to be stopped which is otherwise exercisable by a constable.6Any person who, without reasonable excuse—afails to allow a constable to enter and search—,iany premises in pursuance of section 54(2A) of this Act or of subsection (1) above; oriiany vehicle or vessel in pursuance of the said subsection (1), or seize and detain anything found in the course of such searsh;bwhen required by a constable in pursuance of subsection (1) above to stop a vehicle or vessel and keep it stopped, fails to do so; orcobstructs a constable in the exercise of his powers under section 54(2A) of this Act orsubsection (1) above;shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale. Protection of insecure premises.611Where—aany premises have been left open, unlocked or otherwise insecure; andbin the opinion of a constable, the insecurity of the premises is likely to conduce to the commission of an offence,the constable may take such reasonable steps as he may consider necessary to make the premises secure.2Any reasonable expense incurred by a constable in making any premises secure under subsection (1) above may be recovered by the police authority from the occupier (or, where there is no occupier, from the tenant or, where there is no occupier or tenant, from the owner) of the premises.Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289GWords substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289GWords substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289GWords substituted by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 87(3)Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G1976 c. 38. Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289GS. 51(2A) inserted by Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42, SIF 96), ss. 4(6), 87(6), 163(2)Words in s. 51(3) substituted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 8; S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1)1981 c. 42. S. 51(6)(a) repealed by Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42, SIF 96), ss. 163(3), 203(3), Sch. 21 (with ss. 4(6), 87(6), Sch. 12 Pt. II para. 1)1968 c. 54. The text of ss. 16, 18(11), 51(7) and 52(6) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.Words added by Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 (c. 46, SIF 96), s. 26(b) and repealed by Broacasting Act 1990 (c. 42, SIF 96), ss. 163(4)(a), 203(3), Sch. 21 (with ss. 4(6), 87(6), Sch. 12 Pt. II para. 1)S. 51(8): words in definition ofprescribed sum substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 40, ss. 5, 7(2), Sch. 4 para. 44(2)Definitions inserted by Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42, SIF 96), ss. 4(6), 87(6), 163(4)(b)Word inserted by Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 (c. 46, SIF 96), s. 26(c) and repealed by Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42, SIF 96), ss. 163(4)(c), 203(3), Sch. 21 (with ss. 4(6), 87(6), Sch. 12 Pt. II para. 1)Words in s. 51(8) inserted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 168(1), Sch. 9 para. 20; S.I. 1995/127, art. 2Words in s. 52(1)(a) inserted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 84(6)(a)(i) (with Sch. 9 para. 17)Words in s. 52(1)(a) substituted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 84(6)(a)(ii) (with Sch. 9 para. 17Words in s. 52(1)(b)(c)(d) inserted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 84(6)(b); S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1Words in s. 52(2) inserted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 84(6)(c); S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1S. 52(2A)-(2C) added (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 84(6)(d); S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1Words in s. 52(3)(a) substituted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 84(6)(e)(i); S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1Words in s. 52(3) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 40, ss. 5, 7(2), Sch. 4 para. 44(3)Words in s. 52(3)(b) substituted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 84(6)(e)(ii); S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1Words in s. 52(4)(5)(a)(b) substituted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 84(6)(f); S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1The text of ss. 16, 18(11), 51(7) and 52(6) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991. 1952 c. 67. 1975 c. 21. Words inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:2), s. 170(1) Sch. 15 para. 89S. 52(8)(c) substituted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 84(6)(g); S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1S. 52A inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1, 2) s. 161(1)(2)Words in s. 52A(1) substituted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 84(7); S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1words in s. 52A(2)(a)-(c) inserted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 84(7)(b); S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1Words in s. 52A(3) inserted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 84(7)(c)(i); S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1Words in s. 52A(3) added (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 84(7)(c)(ii); S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1Words in s. 52A(4) inserted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 84(7)(d); S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G1974 c. 40. S. 54(2A)-(2C) inserted (1.12.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 24(2); S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)Word substituted by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 87(4)Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289GWords substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289GWords substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289GWords substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G1974 c. 53. Words in s. 60(5) inserted (1.12.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 24(3)(a)(i); S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)Words in s. 60(5) substituted (1.12.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 24(3)(a)(ii); S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)Words and s. 60(6)(a)(i)(ii) substituted for words in s. 60(6)(a) substituted (1.12.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 24(3)(b)(i); S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)Words in s. 60(6)(c) inserted (1.12.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 24(3)(b)(ii); S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289GAct partly in force at Royal Assent see s. 137(2); Act wholly in force at 1. 1. 1985 see S.I. 1983/201 as amended by S.I. 1984/573 and 744.Act (except s. 16 which applies to England and Wales) applies to Scotland only see s. 137(9).Act excluded (19. 12. 1991) by City of Edinburgh District Council Order Confirmation Act (c. xix), ss. 1, 12(2), Sch. Pt. V1980 c. 45.
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<dc:description>An Act to make provision as regards Scotland for the licensing and regulation of certain activities; for the preservation of public order and safety and the prevention crime; for prohibiting the taking of and dealing with indecent photographs of children; as to certain powers of constables and others; as to lost and abandoned property and property in the possession of persons taken into police custody; as to the rights and duties of the owners and users of certain land, buildings and other structures; as to the making by local authorities of byelaws; and to enable them to make management rules applying to land or premises under their control; as to certain other functions of local authorities and their officers; as to the time when the Burgh Police (Scotland) Acts 1892 to 1911 and certain local statutory provisions cease to have effect; and for connected purposes.]</dc:description>
<dc:date>1982-11-01</dc:date>
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<Title> Soliciting and importuning by prostitutes.</Title>
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shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding
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<Addition ChangeId="d29p3402" CommentaryRef="c13373591">level 2 on the standard scale</Addition>
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shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding
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<Text>This section applies in relation to a place, being a place referred to in subsection (1)(e) above, only if a notice stating that this section applies to it and the effect of such application is displayed at the entrance to that place or elsewhere so that it may be seen by members of the public intending to have access to the place.</Text>
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<Text>This section shall not apply to a blind person in charge of a dog kept and used solely for his guidance or to a stockperson in charge of a working dog being used for droving livestock.</Text>
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<Term id="term-footway">footway</Term>
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<Title> Dangerous and annoying creatures.</Title>
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<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>A district court may, if satisfied that any creature kept in the vicinity of any place where a person resides is giving that person, while in that place, reasonable cause for annoyance, make an order requiring the person keeping the creature to take, within such period as may be specified in the order, such steps (short of destruction of the creature) to prevent the continuance of the annoyance as may be so specified.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/49/3/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/49/3" id="section-49-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>An application to a district court for an order under subsection (2) above may be made by any person.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/49/4/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/49/4" id="section-49-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Any person who fails to comply with an order under subsection (2) above shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3520" CommentaryRef="c13373621">level 3 on the standard scale</Addition>
.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/49/5/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/49/5" id="section-49-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
The fact that there is a licence under the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c13373641"/>
Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 in respect of a creature shall not of itself afford a defence in proceedings under this section relating to that creature.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/49/6/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/49/6" id="section-49-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Where a court convicts a person of an offence under this section or discharges him absolutely or makes a probation order in relation to him, it may, whether or not (in the case of conviction) it imposes a penalty under subsection (1) or (4) above—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/49/6/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/49/6/a" id="section-49-6-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>subject to subsection (8) below, make such order as it sees fit as to the disposal of the creature to which the proceedings relate;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/49/6/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/49/6/b" id="section-49-6-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>authorise a constable, in pursuance of such an order, to take possession of the creature.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/49/7/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/49/7" id="section-49-7">
<Pnumber>7</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>An order under subsection (6) above may, subject to any enactment relating to the protection or conservation of living things, be for the destruction of the creature to which it relates.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/49/8/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/49/8" id="section-49-8">
<Pnumber>8</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>No creature disposed of under an order under subsection (6) above shall be given or sold for the purposes of vivisection.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group>
<Title> Drunkenness.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/50" id="section-50">
<Pnumber>50</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/1/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/1" id="section-50-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Any person who, while not in the care or protection of a suitable person, is, in a public place, drunk and incapable of taking care of himself shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3576" CommentaryRef="c13373651">level 2 on the standard scale</Addition>
.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/2/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/2" id="section-50-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Any person who is drunk in a public place while in charge of a child under the age of 10 shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3586" CommentaryRef="c13373651">level 2 on the standard scale</Addition>
.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/3/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/3" id="section-50-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>For the purposes of subsection (2) above, if a child appears to the court to be under the age of 10, the child shall be deemed to be under that age unless the contrary is proved.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/4/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/4" id="section-50-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>A constable may arrest a person for contravening subsection (2) above if he has reasonable cause to believe that the child in the charge of that person is under the age of 10.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/5/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/5" id="section-50-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Any person who is drunk in a public place while in possession of a firearm (including a crossbow, airgun, air rifle or air pistol) shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3608" CommentaryRef="c13373651">level 2 on the standard scale</Addition>
.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/6/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/6" id="section-50-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
In this section, “
<Term id="term-public-place">public place</Term>
” has the same meaning as in section 133 of this Act but includes—
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/6/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/6/a" id="section-50-6-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>any place to which at the material time the public are permitted to have access, whether on payment or otherwise; and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/6/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/50/6/b" id="section-50-6-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>any public conveyance other than a taxi or hire car within the meaning of section 23 of this Act.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="2011-03-28" RestrictExtent="S" RestrictStartDate="1996-04-01">
<Title> Obscene material.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51" id="section-51">
<Pnumber>51</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/1/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/1" id="section-51-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Subject to subsection (4) below, any person who displays any obscene material in any public place or in any other place where it can be seen by the public shall be guilty of an offence under this section.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/2/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/2" id="section-51-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Subject to subsection (4) below, any person who publishes, sells or distributes or, with a view to its eventual sale or distribution, makes, prints, has or keeps any obscene material shall be guilty of an offence under this section.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/2A/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/2A" id="section-51-2A">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3653" CommentaryRef="c13373891">2A</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3653" CommentaryRef="c13373891">Subject to subsection (4) below, any person who—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/2A/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/2A/a" id="section-51-2A-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3653" CommentaryRef="c13373891">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3653" CommentaryRef="c13373891">is responsible for the inclusion of any obscene material in a programme included in a programme service; or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/2A/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/2A/b" id="section-51-2A-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3653" CommentaryRef="c13373891">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3653" CommentaryRef="c13373891">with a view to its eventual inclusion in a programme so included, makes, prints, has or keeps any obscene material,</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3653" CommentaryRef="c13373891">shall be guilty of an offence under this section.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/3/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/3" id="section-51-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the prescribed sum or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3681" CommentaryRef="c13373901">6 months</Addition>
or to both or, on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3685" CommentaryRef="c13373901">3 years</Addition>
or to both.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/4/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/4" id="section-51-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>A person shall not be convicted of an offence under this section if he proves that he had used all due diligence to avoid committing the offence.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/5/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/5" id="section-51-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Under an indictment for or on a complaint of a breach of subsection (1) above, the court may, if satisfied that the person accused is guilty of an offence under section 1(1) of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c13373921"/>
Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981 (offence of public display of indecent matter), convict him of a breach of the said section 1(1).
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/6/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/6" id="section-51-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Nothing in this section applies in relation to any matter—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/6/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/6/a" id="section-51-6-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c13373931"/>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/6/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/6/b" id="section-51-6-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
included in a performance of a play (within the meaning of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c13373941"/>
Theatres Act 1968).
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/7/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/7" id="section-51-7">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c13373951"/>
7
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>For section 5(4)(b) of the Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981 (saving) there shall be substituted the following—</Text>
<BlockAmendment TargetClass="primary" TargetSubClass="unknown" Context="main" Format="default">
<P3>
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>section 51 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</BlockAmendment>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/8/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/8" id="section-51-8">
<Pnumber>8</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>In this section—</Text>
<UnorderedList Decoration="none" Class="Definition">
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-material">material</Term>
” includes any book, magazine, bill, paper, print, film, tape, disc or other kind of recording (whether of sound or visual images or both), photograph, drawing, painting, representation, model or figure . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c13373961"/>
;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-photograph">photograph</Term>
” includes the negative as well as the positive version;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-public-place">public place</Term>
” has the same meaning as in section 133 of this Act except that it includes any place to which at the material time the public are permitted to have access, whether on payment or otherwise;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-prescribed-sum">prescribed sum</Term>
” has the same meaning as in
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3775" CommentaryRef="c13373971">section 225(8) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995</Addition>
;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3782" CommentaryRef="c13373981"></Addition>
<Term id="term-programme">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3782" CommentaryRef="c13373981">programme</Addition>
</Term>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3782" CommentaryRef="c13373981">” and “</Addition>
<Term id="term-programme-service">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3782" CommentaryRef="c13373981">programme service</Addition>
</Term>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3782" CommentaryRef="c13373981">” have the same meaning as in the Broadcasting Act 1990;</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
</UnorderedList>
<Text>
and the reference to publishing includes a reference to . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c13373991"/>
playing, projecting or otherwise reproducing
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3795" CommentaryRef="c13374001">, or, where the material is data stored electronically, transmitting that data</Addition>
.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="2003-06-27" RestrictStartDate="1996-04-01" RestrictExtent="S">
<Title> Indecent photographs etc. of children.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52" id="section-52">
<Pnumber>52</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/1/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/1" id="section-52-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Any person who—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/1/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/1/a" id="section-52-1-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
takes, or permits to be taken
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3819" CommentaryRef="c13374241">or makes</Addition>
, any indecent photograph
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3823" CommentaryRef="c13374251">or pseudo-photograph of a child</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/1/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/1/b" id="section-52-1-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
distributes or shows such an indecent photograph
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3832" CommentaryRef="c13374261">or pseudo-photograph</Addition>
;
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/1/c/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/1/c" id="section-52-1-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
has in his possession such an indecent photograph
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3842" CommentaryRef="c13374261">or pseudo-photograph</Addition>
with a view to its being distributed or shown by himself or others: or
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/1/d/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/1/d" id="section-52-1-d">
<Pnumber>d</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
publishes or causes to be published any advertisement likely to be understood as conveying that the advertiser distributes or shows such an indecent photograph
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3852" CommentaryRef="c13374261">or pseudo-photograph</Addition>
, or intends to do so
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>shall be guilty of an offence under this section.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/2/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/2" RestrictEndDate="2004-05-01" id="section-52-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3863" CommentaryRef="c13374291">In subsection (1) above “</Addition>
<Term id="term-child">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3863" CommentaryRef="c13374291">child</Addition>
</Term>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3863" CommentaryRef="c13374291">” means, subject to subsection (2B) below, a person under the age of 16; and</Addition>
In proceedings under this section a person is to be taken as having been a child at any material time if it appears from the evidence as a whole that he was then under the age of 16.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/2A/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/2A" RestrictEndDate="2004-05-01" id="section-52-2A">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3870" CommentaryRef="c13374301">2A</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3870" CommentaryRef="c13374301">In this section, “</Addition>
<Term id="term-pseudo-photograph">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3870" CommentaryRef="c13374301">pseudo-photograph</Addition>
</Term>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3870" CommentaryRef="c13374301">” means an image, whether produced by computer-graphics or otherwise howsoever, which appears to be a photograph.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/2B/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/2B" RestrictEndDate="2004-05-01" id="section-52-2B">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3870" CommentaryRef="c13374301">2B</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3870" CommentaryRef="c13374301">If the impression conveyed by a pseudo-photograph is that the person shown is a child, the pseudo-photograph shall be treated for all purposes of this Act as showing a child and so shall a pseudo-photograph where the predominant impression conveyed is that the person shown is a child notwithstanding that some of the physical characteristics shown are those of an adult.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/2C/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/2C" RestrictEndDate="2004-05-01" id="section-52-2C">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3870" CommentaryRef="c13374301">2C</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3870" CommentaryRef="c13374301">In this section, references to an indecent pseudo-photograph include—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/2C/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/2C/a" id="section-52-2C-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3870" CommentaryRef="c13374301">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3870" CommentaryRef="c13374301">a copy of an indecent pseudo-photograph;</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/2C/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/2C/b" id="section-52-2C-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3870" CommentaryRef="c13374301">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3870" CommentaryRef="c13374301">data stored on a computer disc or by other electronic means which is capable of conversion into a pseudo-photograph.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/3/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/3" id="section-52-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/3/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/3/a" id="section-52-3-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3917" CommentaryRef="c13374311">6 months</Addition>
or to a fine not exceeding the prescribed sum within the meaning of
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3921" CommentaryRef="c13374321">section 225(8) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995</Addition>
(at the passing of this Act £1,000) or to both;
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/3/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/3/b" id="section-52-3-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3931" CommentaryRef="c13374331">3 years</Addition>
or to a fine or to both.
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/4/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/4" id="section-52-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
For the purposes of this section, a person is to be regarded as distributing an indecent photograph
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3941" CommentaryRef="c13374341"> or pseudo-photograph</Addition>
if he parts with possession of it to, or exposes or offers it for acquisition by, another person.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/5/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/5" id="section-52-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Where a person is charged with an offfence under subsection (1)(b) or (c) above, it shall be a defence for him to prove—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/5/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/5/a" id="section-52-5-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
that he had a legitimate reason for distributing or showing the photograph
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3957" CommentaryRef="c13374341"> or pseudo-photograph</Addition>
or (as the case may be) having it in his possession; or
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/5/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/5/b" id="section-52-5-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
that he had not himself seen the photograph
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3967" CommentaryRef="c13374341">or pseudo-photograph</Addition>
and did not know, nor had any cause to suspect, it to be indecent.
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/6/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/6" id="section-52-6">
<Pnumber>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c13374371"/>
6
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
In paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c13374381"/>
Visiting Forces Act 1952 (offences against the person in the case of which a member of a visiting force is in certain circumstances not liable to be tried by a United Kingdom court) the word “ and” immediately preceding sub-paragraph (b)(iii) shall be omitted and after the said sub-paragraph (b)(iii) there shall be added—
</Text>
<BlockAmendment TargetClass="unknown" TargetSubClass="unknown" Context="schedule" Format="default">
<P4>
<Pnumber>iv</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>section 52(1)(a) of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982.</Text>
</P4para>
</P4>
</BlockAmendment>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/7/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/7" id="section-52-7">
<Pnumber>7</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
References in the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c13374391"/>
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (except in sections 171 and 368 thereof)
<Addition ChangeId="d29p3996" CommentaryRef="c13374401">and in Part III of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (children in need of compulsory measures of care)</Addition>
to the offences mentioned in Schedule 1 to that Act shall include an offence under subsection (1)(a) above.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/8/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/8" RestrictEndDate="2004-05-01" id="section-52-8">
<Pnumber>8</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>In this section—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/8/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/8/a" id="section-52-8-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>references to an indecent photograph include an indecent film, a copy of an indecent photograph or film and an indecent photograph comprised in a film;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/8/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/8/b" id="section-52-8-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>a photograph (including one comprised in a film) shall, if it shows a child and is indecent, be treated for all purposes of this section as an indecent photograph of a child;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/8/c/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/8/c" id="section-52-8-c">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4018" CommentaryRef="c13374411">c</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4018" CommentaryRef="c13374411">references to a photograph include—</Addition>
</Text>
<P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/8/c/i/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/8/c/i" id="section-52-8-c-i">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4018" CommentaryRef="c13374411">i</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4018" CommentaryRef="c13374411">the negative as well as the positive version; and</Addition>
</Text>
</P4para>
</P4>
<P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/8/c/ii/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/8/c/ii" id="section-52-8-c-ii">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4018" CommentaryRef="c13374411">ii</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4018" CommentaryRef="c13374411">data stored on a computer disc or by other electronic means which is capable of conversion into a photograph.</Addition>
</Text>
</P4para>
</P4>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/8/d/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52/8/d" id="section-52-8-d">
<Pnumber>d</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-film">film</Term>
” includes any form of video-recording.
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="2003-06-27" RestrictExtent="S" RestrictStartDate="1995-02-03">
<Title>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431"> Possession of indecent photographs of children.</Addition>
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52A/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52A" id="section-52A">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">52A</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52A/1/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52A/1" id="section-52A-1">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">1</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">It is an offence for a person to have any indecent photograph </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4062" CommentaryRef="c13374441">or pseudo-photograph of a child</Addition>
</Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431"> in his possession.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52A/2/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52A/2" id="section-52A-2">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">2</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">Where a person is charged with an offence under subsection (1), it shall be a defence for him to prove—</Addition>
</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52A/2/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52A/2/a" id="section-52A-2-a">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">a</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">that he had a legitimate reason for having the photograph </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4078" CommentaryRef="c13374451">or pseudo-photograph</Addition>
</Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431"> in his possession; or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52A/2/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52A/2/b" id="section-52A-2-b">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">b</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">that he had not himself seen the photograph </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4088" CommentaryRef="c13374451">or pseudo-photograph</Addition>
</Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431"> and did not know, nor had any cause to suspect, it to be indecent; or</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52A/2/c/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52A/2/c" id="section-52A-2-c">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">c</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">that the photograph </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4098" CommentaryRef="c13374451">or pseudo-photograph</Addition>
</Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431"> was sent to him without any prior request made by him or on his behalf and that he did not keep it for an unreasonable time.</Addition>
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52A/3/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52A/3" id="section-52A-3">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">3</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">A person shall be liable on summary conviction of an offence under this section to </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4108" CommentaryRef="c13374481">imprisonment for a period not exceeding 6 months or to</Addition>
</Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4112" CommentaryRef="c13374491">“or to both.”</Addition>
</Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/52A/4/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/52A/4" id="section-52A-4">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">4</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">Subsections (2) </Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4122" CommentaryRef="c13374501">to (2C)</Addition>
</Addition>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4049" CommentaryRef="c13374431"> and (8) of section 52 of this Act shall have effect for the purposes of this section as they have for the purposes of that section.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group>
<Title> Obstruction by pedestrians.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/53/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/53" id="section-53">
<Pnumber>53</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<Text>Any person who, being on foot in any public place—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/53/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/53/a" id="section-53-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>obstructs, along with another or others, the lawful passage of any other person and fails to desist on being required to do so by a constable in uniform, or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/53/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/53/b" id="section-53-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>wilfully obstructs the lawful passage of any other person</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4151" CommentaryRef="c13374511">level 2 on the standard scale</Addition>
.
</Text>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="2002-04-01" RestrictExtent="S" RestrictStartDate="1998-12-01">
<Title> Playing instruments, singing, playing radios, etc.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54" id="section-54">
<Pnumber>54</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/1/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/1" id="section-54-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Any person who—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/1/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/1/a" id="section-54-1-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>sounds or plays any musical instrument;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/1/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/1/b" id="section-54-1-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>sings or performs; or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/1/c/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/1/c" id="section-54-1-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>operates any radio or television receiver, record player, tape-recorder or other sound producing device</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>so as to give any other person reasonable cause for annoyance and fails to desist on being required to do so by a constable in uniform, shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £50.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/2/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/2" id="section-54-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
This section is without prejudice to any offence under section 62 of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c13374551"/>
Control of Pollution Act 1974 (operation of loudspeakers in streets).
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/2A/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/2A" id="section-54-2A">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p38182" CommentaryRef="c13374561">2A</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p38182" CommentaryRef="c13374561">Where a constable reasonably suspects that an offence under subsection (1) above has been committed in relation to a musical instrument or in relation to such a device as is mentioned in paragraph (c) of that subsection, he may enter any premises on which he reasonably suspects that instrument or device to be and seize any such instrument or device he finds there.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/2B/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/2B" id="section-54-2B">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p38182" CommentaryRef="c13374561">2B</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p38182" CommentaryRef="c13374561">A constable may use reasonable force in the exercise of the power conferred by subsection (2A) above.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/2C/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/2C" id="section-54-2C">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p38182" CommentaryRef="c13374561">2C</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p38182" CommentaryRef="c13374561">Schedule 2A to this Act (which makes provision in relation to the retention and disposal of property seized under subsection (2A) above) shall have effect.</Addition>
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3" id="section-54-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Subsection (1) above shall not apply to the operation of a loudspeaker—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/a" id="section-54-3-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>for police, fire brigade or ambulance purposes, by a water authority in the exercise of any of its functions, or by a local authority within its area;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/b" id="section-54-3-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>for communicating with persons on a vessel for the purpose of directing the movement of that or any other vessel;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/c/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/c" id="section-54-3-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>if the loudspeaker forms part of a public telephone system;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/d/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/d" id="section-54-3-d">
<Pnumber>d</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>if the loudspeaker—</Text>
<P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/d/i/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/d/i" id="section-54-3-d-i">
<Pnumber>i</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>is in or fixed to a vehicle, and</Text>
</P4para>
</P4>
<P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/d/ii/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/d/ii" id="section-54-3-d-ii">
<Pnumber>ii</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>is operated solely for the entertainment of or for communicating with the driver or a passenger of the vehicle or, where the loudspeaker is or forms part of the horn or similar warning instrument of the vehicle, solely for giving warning to other traffic, and</Text>
</P4para>
</P4>
<P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/d/iii/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/d/iii" id="section-54-3-d-iii">
<Pnumber>iii</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>is so operated as not to give reasonable cause for annoyance to persons in the vicinity;</Text>
</P4para>
</P4>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/e/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/e" id="section-54-3-e">
<Pnumber>e</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
otherwise than on a
<Addition ChangeId="d29p38256" CommentaryRef="c13374571">road</Addition>
, by persons employed in connection with a transport undertaking used by the public in a case where the loudspeaker is operated solely for making announcements to passengers or prospective passengers or to other persons so employed;
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/f/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/f" id="section-54-3-f">
<Pnumber>f</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>by a travelling showman on land which is being used for the purposes of a pleasure fair;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/g/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/3/g" id="section-54-3-g">
<Pnumber>g</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>in case of emergency.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
In this subsection, “
<Term id="term-water-authority">water authority</Term>
” has the meaning assigned by section 3 of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c13374581"/>
Water (Scotland) Act 1980.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group>
<Title> Touting.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/55/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/55" id="section-55">
<Pnumber>55</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/55/1/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/55/1" id="section-55-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Any person who—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/55/1/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/55/1/a" id="section-55-1-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>in a public place—</Text>
<P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/55/1/a/i/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/55/1/a/i" id="section-55-1-a-i">
<Pnumber>i</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>touts for the purpose of selling or advertising anything or otherwise obtaining custom so as to give any other person reasonable cause for annoyance; or</Text>
</P4para>
</P4>
<P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/55/1/a/ii/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/55/1/a/ii" id="section-55-1-a-ii">
<Pnumber>ii</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>importunes any other person for that purpose so as to give that, or any other, person reasonable cause for annoyance; and</Text>
</P4para>
</P4>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/55/1/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/55/1/b" id="section-55-1-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>fails to desist when required to do so by a constable in uniform,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4336" CommentaryRef="c13374591">level 2 on the standard scale</Addition>
.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group>
<Title> Fires.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/56/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/56" id="section-56">
<Pnumber>56</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<Text>
Any person who lays or lights a fire in a public place so as to endanger any other person or give him reasonable cause for alarm or annoyance or so as to endanger any property shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4350" CommentaryRef="c13374601">level 3 on the standard scale</Addition>
.
</Text>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Pblock>
<Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/part/IV/crossheading/preventive-offences/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/part/IV/crossheading/preventive-offences" NumberOfProvisions="2" RestrictEndDate="2010-12-13" id="part-IV-crossheading-preventive-offences" RestrictExtent="S">
<Title> Preventive offences</Title>
<P1group>
<Title> Being in or on building etc. with intent to commit theft.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/57/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/57" id="section-57">
<Pnumber>57</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/57/1/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/57/1" id="section-57-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Any person who, without lawful authority to be there, is found in or on a building or other premises, whether enclosed or not, or in its curtilage or in a vehicle or vessel so that, in all the circumstances, it may reasonably be inferred that he intended to commit theft there shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4372" CommentaryRef="c13374611">level 4 on the standard scale</Addition>
or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 months or to both.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/57/2/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/57/2" id="section-57-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
In this section “
<Term id="term-theft">theft</Term>
” includes any aggravation of theft including robbery.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="2010-12-13" RestrictExtent="S">
<Title> Convicted thief in possession.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/58" id="section-58">
<Pnumber>58</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/1/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/1" id="section-58-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Any person who, being a person to whom this section applies—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/1/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/1/a" id="section-58-1-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>has or has recently had in his possession any tool or other object from the possession of which it may reasonably be inferred that he intended to commit theft or has committed theft; and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/1/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/1/b" id="section-58-1-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>is unable to demonstrate satisfactorily that his possession of such tool or other object is or was not for the purposes of committing theft</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4413" CommentaryRef="c13374621">level 4 on the standard scale</Addition>
or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 months or to both.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/2/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/2" id="section-58-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>For the purposes of subsection (1) above, a person shall have recently had possession of a tool or other object if he had possession of it within 14 days before the date of—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/2/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/2/a" id="section-58-2-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>his arrest without warrant for the offence of having so possessed it in contravention of subsection (1) above; or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/2/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/2/b" id="section-58-2-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the issue of a warrant for his arrest for that offence; or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/2/c/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/2/c" id="section-58-2-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>if earlier, the service upon him of the first complaint alleging that he has committed that offence.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/3/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/3" id="section-58-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Where a court convicts a person of an offence under this section or discharges him absolutely or makes a probation order in relation to him in respect of such an offence it may order the forfeiture of any tool or other object in respect of the possession of which he was convicted or discharged absolutely, or, as the case may be, the probation order was made.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/4/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/4" id="section-58-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
This section applies to a person who has two or more convictions for theft which are not, for the purposes of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c13374631"/>
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, spent convictions.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/5/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/58/5" id="section-58-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
In this section “
<Term id="term-theft">theft</Term>
” includes any aggravation of theft including robbery.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Pblock>
<Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/part/IV/crossheading/powers-of-constables-etc/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/part/IV/crossheading/powers-of-constables-etc" NumberOfProvisions="3" RestrictEndDate="2013-04-01" id="part-IV-crossheading-powers-of-constables-etc">
<Title> Powers of constables etc.</Title>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="2018-01-25">
<Title> Powers of arrest and apprehension.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/59/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/59" id="section-59">
<Pnumber>59</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/59/1/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/59/1" id="section-59-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Subject to subsection (2) below, a constable may, where it is necessary in the interests of justice to do so, arrest without warrant a person whom he finds committing an offence to which this section applies or a person who is delivered into his custody in pursuance of subsection (3) below.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/59/2/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/59/2" id="section-59-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>A constable who is not in uniform shall produce his identification if required to do so by any person whom he is arresting under subsection (1) above.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/59/3/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/59/3" id="section-59-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The owner, tenant or occupier of any property in, upon, or in respect of, which an offence to which this section applies is being committed or any person authorised by him may apprehend any person whom the owner or, as the case may be, the tenant, occupier or authorised person finds committing that offence and detain the apprehended person until he can be delivered into the custody of a constable.</Text>
</P2para>
<P2para>
<Text>
In this subsection “
<Term id="term-property">property</Term>
” means heritable or moveable property.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/59/4/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/59/4" id="section-59-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>This section applies to offences under sections 50, 57 and 58 of this Act.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/59/5/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/59/5" id="section-59-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>This section shall not prejudice any power of arrest conferred by law apart from this section.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictExtent="S" RestrictStartDate="1998-12-01">
<Title> Powers of search and seizure.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60" id="section-60">
<Pnumber>60</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/1/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/1" id="section-60-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Subject to subsection (2) and (3) below, if a constable has reasonable grounds to suspect that a person is in possession of any stolen property, the constable may without warrant—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/1/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/1/a" id="section-60-1-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>search that person or anything in his possession, and detain him for as long as is necessary for the purpose of that search;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/1/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/1/b" id="section-60-1-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>enter and search any vehicle or vessel in which the constable suspects that that thing may be found, and for that purpose require the person in control of the vehicle or vessel to stop it and keep it stopped;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/1/c/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/1/c" id="section-60-1-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>enter and search any premises occupied by a second-hand dealer or a metal dealer for the purposes of his business;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/1/d/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/1/d" id="section-60-1-d">
<Pnumber>d</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>seize and detain anything found in the course of any such search which appears to the constable to have been stolen or to be evidence of the commission of the crime of theft</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>and may, in doing so, use reasonable force.</Text>
</P2para>
<P2para>
<Text>
In this subsection “
<Term id="term-second-hand-dealer">second-hand dealer</Term>
” and “
<Term id="term-metal-dealer">metal dealer</Term>
” have the meanings respectively assigned to them by sections 24(2) and 37(1) of this Act.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/2/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/2" id="section-60-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The power under subsection (1)(b) above to require the person in charge of a vehicle or vessel to stop it shall be exercisable only by a constable in uniform.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/3/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/3" id="section-60-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>A constable who is not in uniform shall not be entitled to exercise the powers which he may exercise under subsection (1)(a) to (c) above until he has produced his identification—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/3/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/3/a" id="section-60-3-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>in relation to the exercise of powers under subsection (1)(a) above, to the person in respect of whom the powers are exercised;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/3/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/3/b" id="section-60-3-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>in relation to the exercise of powers under subsections (1)(b) or (c) above, to the person for the time being in charge of the vehicle, vessel or premises and to any other person in or on the vehicle, vessel or premises who, having reasonable cause to do so, requests to see it.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/4/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/4" id="section-60-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
In subsection (1) above “
<Term id="term-theft">theft</Term>
” includes any aggravation of theft including robbery.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/5/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/5" id="section-60-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Nothing in
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4600" CommentaryRef="c13374651">section 54(2A) of this Act or</Addition>
this section prejudices any power of entry or search or any power to seize or detain property or any power to require any vehicle or vessel to be stopped
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4604" CommentaryRef="c13374661">which is otherwise exercisable by a constable</Addition>
.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/6/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/6" id="section-60-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Any person who, without reasonable excuse—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/6/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/6/a" id="section-60-6-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
fails to allow a constable
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4620" CommentaryRef="c13374671">to enter and search—,</Addition>
</Text>
<P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/6/a/i/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/6/a/i" id="section-60-6-a-i">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4620" CommentaryRef="c13374671">i</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4620" CommentaryRef="c13374671">any premises in pursuance of section 54(2A) of this Act or of subsection (1) above; or</Addition>
</Text>
</P4para>
</P4>
<P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/6/a/ii/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/6/a/ii" id="section-60-6-a-ii">
<Pnumber>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4620" CommentaryRef="c13374671">ii</Addition>
</Pnumber>
<P4para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4620" CommentaryRef="c13374671">any vehicle or vessel in pursuance of the said subsection (1)</Addition>
, or seize and detain anything found in the course of such searsh;
</Text>
</P4para>
</P4>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/6/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/6/b" id="section-60-6-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>when required by a constable in pursuance of subsection (1) above to stop a vehicle or vessel and keep it stopped, fails to do so; or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/6/c/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/6/c" id="section-60-6-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>
obstructs a constable in the exercise of his powers under
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4648" CommentaryRef="c13374681">section 54(2A) of this Act or</Addition>
subsection (1) above;
</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>
shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding
<Addition ChangeId="d29p4654" CommentaryRef="c13374691">level 3 on the standard scale</Addition>
.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
<P1group RestrictEndDate="2013-04-01">
<Title> Protection of insecure premises.</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/61/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/61" id="section-61">
<Pnumber>61</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/61/1/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/61/1" id="section-61-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Where—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/61/1/a/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/61/1/a" id="section-61-1-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>any premises have been left open, unlocked or otherwise insecure; and</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/61/1/b/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/61/1/b" id="section-61-1-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>in the opinion of a constable, the insecurity of the premises is likely to conduce to the commission of an offence,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>the constable may take such reasonable steps as he may consider necessary to make the premises secure.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/61/2/1998-12-01" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/61/2" id="section-61-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Any reasonable expense incurred by a constable in making any premises secure under subsection (1) above may be recovered by the police authority from the occupier (or, where there is no occupier, from the tenant or, where there is no occupier or tenant, from the owner) of the premises.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Pblock>
</Part>
</Body>
</Primary>
<Commentaries>
<Commentary id="c13373581" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by virtue of
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21" id="c00243" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21" Title="Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975">Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00244" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21/section/289G" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00243" SectionRef="section-289G">s. 289G</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13373591" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by virtue of
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21" id="c00245" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21" Title="Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975">Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00246" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21/section/289G" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00245" SectionRef="section-289G">s. 289G</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13373601" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by virtue of
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21" id="c00247" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21" Title="Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975">Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00248" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21/section/289G" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00247" SectionRef="section-289G">s. 289G</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13373611" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/54" id="c00249" Year="1984" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="54" Title="Roads (Scotland) Act 1984">Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00250" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/54/section/156/1" CitationRef="c00249" SectionRef="section-156-1">s. 156(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00251" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/54/schedule/9/paragraph/87/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00249" SectionRef="schedule-9-paragraph-87-3">Sch. 9 para. 87(3)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13373621" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by virtue of
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21" id="c00252" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21" Title="Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975">Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00253" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21/section/289G" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00252" SectionRef="section-289G">s. 289G</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13373641" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1976/38" id="c00254" Year="1976" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="38">1976 c. 38</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13373651" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by virtue of
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21" id="c00255" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21" Title="Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975">Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00256" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21/section/289G" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00255" SectionRef="section-289G">s. 289G</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13373891" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00257" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/2A" SectionRef="section-51-2A">S. 51(2A)</CitationSubRef>
inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42" id="c00258" Year="1990" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Broadcasting Act 1990">Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42, SIF 96)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00259" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/4/6" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00258" SectionRef="section-4-6">ss. 4(6)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00260" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/87/6" CitationRef="c00258" SectionRef="section-87-6">87(6)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00261" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/163/2" CitationRef="c00258" SectionRef="section-163-2">163(2)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13373901" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in
<CitationSubRef id="c00262" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/3" SectionRef="section-51-3">s. 51(3)</CitationSubRef>
substituted (3.2.1995) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33" id="c00263" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33">1994 c. 33</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00264" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/section/8" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00263" SectionRef="section-8">s. 8</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127" id="c00265" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1995" Number="127">S.I. 1995/127</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00266" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/article/2/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00265" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13373921" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/42" id="c00267" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42">1981 c. 42</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13373931" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00268" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/6" SectionRef="section-51-6">S. 51(6)</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>a</Emphasis>
) repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42" id="c00269" Year="1990" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Broadcasting Act 1990">Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42, SIF 96)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00270" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/163/3" CitationRef="c00269" SectionRef="section-163-3">ss. 163(3)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00271" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/203/3" CitationRef="c00269" SectionRef="section-203-3">203(3)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00272" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/schedule/21" CitationRef="c00269" SectionRef="schedule-21">Sch. 21</CitationSubRef>
(with
<CitationSubRef id="c00273" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/4/6" CitationRef="c00269" SectionRef="section-4-6">ss. 4(6)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00274" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/87/6" CitationRef="c00269" SectionRef="section-87-6">87(6)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00275" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/schedule/12/part/II/paragraph/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00269" SectionRef="schedule-12-part-II-paragraph-1">Sch. 12 Pt. II para. 1</CitationSubRef>
)
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13373941" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/54" id="c00276" Year="1968" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="54">1968 c. 54</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13373951" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>The text of ss. 16, 18(11), 51(7) and 52(6) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13373961" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words added by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/46" id="c00277" Year="1984" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="46" Title="Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984">Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 (c. 46, SIF 96)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00278" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/46/section/26" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00277" SectionRef="section-26">s. 26</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>b</Emphasis>
) and repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42" id="c00279" Year="1990" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Broacasting Act 1990">Broacasting Act 1990 (c. 42, SIF 96)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00280" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/163/4/a" CitationRef="c00279" SectionRef="section-163-4-a">ss. 163(4)(a)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00281" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/203/3" CitationRef="c00279" SectionRef="section-203-3">203(3)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00282" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/schedule/21" CitationRef="c00279" SectionRef="schedule-21">Sch. 21</CitationSubRef>
(with
<CitationSubRef id="c00283" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/4/6" CitationRef="c00279" SectionRef="section-4-6">ss. 4(6)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00284" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/87/6" CitationRef="c00279" SectionRef="section-87-6">87(6)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00285" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/schedule/12/part/II/paragraph/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00279" SectionRef="schedule-12-part-II-paragraph-1">Sch. 12 Pt. II para. 1</CitationSubRef>
)
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13373971" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00286" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/8" SectionRef="section-51-8">S. 51(8)</CitationSubRef>
: words in definition of
</Text>
</Para>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-prescribed-sum">prescribed sum</Term>
</Text>
</Para>
<Para>
<Text> </Text>
</Para>
<Para>
<Text>
substituted (1.4.1996) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1995/40" id="c00287" Year="1995" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="40">1995 c. 40</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00288" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1995/40/section/5" CitationRef="c00287" SectionRef="section-5">ss. 5</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00289" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1995/40/section/7/2" CitationRef="c00287" SectionRef="section-7-2">7(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00290" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1995/40/schedule/4/paragraph/44/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00287" SectionRef="schedule-4-paragraph-44-2">Sch. 4 para. 44(2)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13373981" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Definitions inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42" id="c00291" Year="1990" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Broadcasting Act 1990">Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42, SIF 96)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00292" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/4/6" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00291" SectionRef="section-4-6">ss. 4(6)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00293" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/87/6" CitationRef="c00291" SectionRef="section-87-6">87(6)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00294" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/163/4/b" CitationRef="c00291" SectionRef="section-163-4-b">163(4)(b)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13373991" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Word inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/46" id="c00295" Year="1984" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="46" Title="Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984">Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 (c. 46, SIF 96)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00296" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/46/section/26" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00295" SectionRef="section-26">s. 26</CitationSubRef>
(
<Emphasis>c</Emphasis>
) and repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42" id="c00297" Year="1990" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="42" Title="Broadcasting Act 1990">Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42, SIF 96)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00298" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/163/4/c" CitationRef="c00297" SectionRef="section-163-4-c">ss. 163(4)(c)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00299" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/203/3" CitationRef="c00297" SectionRef="section-203-3">203(3)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00300" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/schedule/21" CitationRef="c00297" SectionRef="schedule-21">Sch. 21</CitationSubRef>
(with
<CitationSubRef id="c00301" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/4/6" CitationRef="c00297" SectionRef="section-4-6">ss. 4(6)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00302" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/section/87/6" CitationRef="c00297" SectionRef="section-87-6">87(6)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00303" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/42/schedule/12/part/II/paragraph/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00297" SectionRef="schedule-12-part-II-paragraph-1">Sch. 12 Pt. II para. 1</CitationSubRef>
)
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374001" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in
<CitationSubRef id="c00304" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/51/8" SectionRef="section-51-8">s. 51(8)</CitationSubRef>
inserted (3.2.1995) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33" id="c00305" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33">1994 c. 33</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00306" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/section/168/1" CitationRef="c00305" SectionRef="section-168-1">s. 168(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00307" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/schedule/9/paragraph/20" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00305" SectionRef="schedule-9-paragraph-20">Sch. 9 para. 20</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127" id="c00308" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1995" Number="127">S.I. 1995/127</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00309" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/article/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00308" SectionRef="article-2">art. 2</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374241" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in s. 52(1)(a) inserted (3.2.1995) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33" id="c00311" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33">1994 c. 33</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00312" CitationRef="c00311" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/section/84/6/a/i" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-84-6-a-i">s. 84(6)(a)(i)</CitationSubRef>
(with
<CitationSubRef id="c00313" CitationRef="c00311" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/schedule/9/paragraph/17" SectionRef="schedule-9-paragraph-17">Sch. 9 para. 17</CitationSubRef>
)
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374251" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in s. 52(1)(a) substituted (3.2.1995) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33" id="c00315" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33">1994 c. 33</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00316" CitationRef="c00315" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/section/84/6/a/ii" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-84-6-a-ii">s. 84(6)(a)(ii)</CitationSubRef>
(with Sch. 9 para. 17
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374261" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in s. 52(1)(b)(c)(d) inserted (3.2.1995) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33" id="c00318" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33">1994 c. 33</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00319" CitationRef="c00318" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/section/84/6/b" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-84-6-b">s. 84(6)(b)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127" id="c00320" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1995" Number="127">S.I. 1995/127</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00321" CitationRef="c00320" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/article/2/1" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00322" CitationRef="c00320" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/schedule/1" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-1">Sch. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374291" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in s. 52(2) inserted (3.2.1995) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33" id="c00324" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33">1994 c. 33</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00325" CitationRef="c00324" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/section/84/6/c" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-84-6-c">s. 84(6)(c)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127" id="c00326" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1995" Number="127">S.I. 1995/127</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00327" CitationRef="c00326" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/article/2/1" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00328" CitationRef="c00326" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/schedule/1" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-1">Sch. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374301" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
S. 52(2A)-(2C) added (3.2.1995) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33" id="c00330" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33">1994 c. 33</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00331" CitationRef="c00330" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/section/84/6/d" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-84-6-d">s. 84(6)(d)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127" id="c00332" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1995" Number="127">S.I. 1995/127</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00333" CitationRef="c00332" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/article/2/1" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00334" CitationRef="c00332" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/schedule/1" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-1">Sch. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374311" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in s. 52(3)(a) substituted (3.2.1995) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33" id="c00336" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33">1994 c. 33</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00337" CitationRef="c00336" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/section/84/6/e/i" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-84-6-e-i">s. 84(6)(e)(i)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127" id="c00338" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1995" Number="127">S.I. 1995/127</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00339" CitationRef="c00338" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/article/2/1" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00340" CitationRef="c00338" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/schedule/1" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-1">Sch. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374321" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in s. 52(3) substituted (1.4.1996) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1995/40" id="c00342" Year="1995" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="40">1995 c. 40</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00343" CitationRef="c00342" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1995/40/section/5" SectionRef="section-5">ss. 5</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00344" CitationRef="c00342" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1995/40/section/7/2" SectionRef="section-7-2">7(2)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00345" CitationRef="c00342" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1995/40/schedule/4/paragraph/44/3" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-4-paragraph-44-3">Sch. 4 para. 44(3)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374331" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in s. 52(3)(b) substituted (3.2.1995) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33" id="c00347" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33">1994 c. 33</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00348" CitationRef="c00347" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/section/84/6/e/ii" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-84-6-e-ii">s. 84(6)(e)(ii)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127" id="c00349" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1995" Number="127">S.I. 1995/127</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00350" CitationRef="c00349" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/article/2/1" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00351" CitationRef="c00349" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/schedule/1" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-1">Sch. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374341" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in s. 52(4)(5)(a)(b) substituted (3.2.1995) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33" id="c00353" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33">1994 c. 33</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00354" CitationRef="c00353" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/section/84/6/f" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-84-6-f">s. 84(6)(f)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127" id="c00355" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1995" Number="127">S.I. 1995/127</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00356" CitationRef="c00355" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/article/2/1" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00357" CitationRef="c00355" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/schedule/1" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-1">Sch. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374371" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>The text of ss. 16, 18(11), 51(7) and 52(6) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374381" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1952/67" id="c00358" Year="1952" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="67">1952 c. 67</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374391" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21" id="c00359" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21">1975 c. 21</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374401" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/33" id="c00360" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33" Title="Criminal Justice Act 1988">Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:2)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00361" CitationRef="c00360" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/33/section/170/1/schedule/15/paragraph/89" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-170-1-schedule-15-paragraph-89">s. 170(1) Sch. 15 para. 89</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374411" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
S. 52(8)(c) substituted (3.2.1995) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33" id="c00363" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33">1994 c. 33</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00364" CitationRef="c00363" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/section/84/6/g" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-84-6-g">s. 84(6)(g)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127" id="c00365" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1995" Number="127">S.I. 1995/127</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00366" CitationRef="c00365" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/article/2/1" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00367" CitationRef="c00365" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/schedule/1" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-1">Sch. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374431" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
S. 52A inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/33" id="c00369" Year="1988" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33" Title="Criminal Justice Act 1988">Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1, 2)</Citation>
s. 161(1)(2)
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374441" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in s. 52A(1) substituted (3.2.1995) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33" id="c00371" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33">1994 c. 33</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00372" CitationRef="c00371" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/section/84/7" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-84-7">s. 84(7)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127" id="c00373" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1995" Number="127">S.I. 1995/127</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00374" CitationRef="c00373" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/article/2/1" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00375" CitationRef="c00373" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/schedule/1" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-1">Sch. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374451" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
words in s. 52A(2)(a)-(c) inserted (3.2.1995) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33" id="c00376" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33">1994 c. 33</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00377" CitationRef="c00376" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/section/84/7/b" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-84-7-b">s. 84(7)(b)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127" id="c00378" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1995" Number="127">S.I. 1995/127</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00379" CitationRef="c00378" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/article/2/1" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00380" CitationRef="c00378" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/schedule/1" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-1">Sch. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374481" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in s. 52A(3) inserted (3.2.1995) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33" id="c00382" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33">1994 c. 33</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00383" CitationRef="c00382" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/section/84/7/c/i" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-84-7-c-i">s. 84(7)(c)(i)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127" id="c00384" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1995" Number="127">S.I. 1995/127</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00385" CitationRef="c00384" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/article/2/1" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00386" CitationRef="c00384" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/schedule/1" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-1">Sch. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374491" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in s. 52A(3) added (3.2.1995) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33" id="c00388" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33">1994 c. 33</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00389" CitationRef="c00388" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/section/84/7/c/ii" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-84-7-c-ii">s. 84(7)(c)(ii)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127" id="c00390" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1995" Number="127">S.I. 1995/127</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00391" CitationRef="c00390" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/article/2/1" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00392" CitationRef="c00390" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/schedule/1" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-1">Sch. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374501" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in s. 52A(4) inserted (3.2.1995) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33" id="c00394" Year="1994" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="33">1994 c. 33</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00395" CitationRef="c00394" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/33/section/84/7/d" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-84-7-d">s. 84(7)(d)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127" id="c00396" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1995" Number="127">S.I. 1995/127</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00397" CitationRef="c00396" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/article/2/1" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00398" CitationRef="c00396" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/127/schedule/1" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-1">Sch. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374511" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by virtue of
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21" id="c00399" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21" Title="Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975">Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00400" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21/section/289G" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00399" SectionRef="section-289G">s. 289G</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374551" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/40" id="c00401" Year="1974" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="40">1974 c. 40</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374561" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c00402" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/2A" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/54/2C" Type="group" StartSectionRef="section-54-2A" EndSectionRef="section-54-2C">S. 54(2A)-(2C)</CitationSubRef>
inserted (1.12.1998) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/37" id="c00403" Year="1998" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="37">1998 c. 37</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00404" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/37/section/24/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00403" SectionRef="section-24-2">s. 24(2)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1998/2327" id="c00405" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1998" Number="2327">S.I. 1998/2327</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00406" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1998/2327/article/2/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00405" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374571" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Word substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/54" id="c00413" Year="1984" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="54" Title="Roads (Scotland) Act 1984">Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00414" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/54/section/156/1" CitationRef="c00413" SectionRef="section-156-1">s. 156(1)</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00415" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/54/schedule/9/paragraph/87/4" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00413" SectionRef="schedule-9-paragraph-87-4">Sch. 9 para. 87(4)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374591" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by virtue of
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21" id="c00422" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21" Title="Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975">Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00423" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21/section/289G" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00422" SectionRef="section-289G">s. 289G</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374601" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by virtue of
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21" id="c00424" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21" Title="Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975">Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00425" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21/section/289G" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00424" SectionRef="section-289G">s. 289G</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374611" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by virtue of
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21" id="c00426" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21" Title="Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975">Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00427" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21/section/289G" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00426" SectionRef="section-289G">s. 289G</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374621" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by virtue of
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21" id="c00428" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21" Title="Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975">Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00429" CitationRef="c00428" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21/section/289G" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-289G">s. 289G</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374631" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1974/53" id="c00430" Year="1974" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="53">1974 c. 53</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374651" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in
<CitationSubRef id="c00431" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/5" SectionRef="section-60-5">s. 60(5)</CitationSubRef>
inserted (1.12.1998) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/37" id="c00432" Year="1998" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="37">1998 c. 37</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00433" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/37/section/24/3/a/i" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00432" SectionRef="section-24-3-a-i">s. 24(3)(a)(i)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1998/2327" id="c00434" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1998" Number="2327">S.I. 1998/2327</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00435" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1998/2327/article/2/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00434" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374661" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in
<CitationSubRef id="c00436" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/5" SectionRef="section-60-5">s. 60(5)</CitationSubRef>
substituted (1.12.1998) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/37" id="c00437" Year="1998" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="37">1998 c. 37</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00438" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/37/section/24/3/a/ii" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00437" SectionRef="section-24-3-a-ii">s. 24(3)(a)(ii)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1998/2327" id="c00439" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1998" Number="2327">S.I. 1998/2327</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00440" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1998/2327/article/2/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00439" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374671" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words and s. 60(6)(a)(i)(ii) substituted for words in s. 60(6)(a) substituted (1.12.1998) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/37" id="c00441" Year="1998" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="37">1998 c. 37</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00442" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/37/section/24/3/b/i" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00441" SectionRef="section-24-3-b-i">s. 24(3)(b)(i)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1998/2327" id="c00443" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1998" Number="2327">S.I. 1998/2327</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00444" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1998/2327/article/2/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00443" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374681" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in
<CitationSubRef id="c00445" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/60/6/c" SectionRef="section-60-6-c">s. 60(6)(c)</CitationSubRef>
inserted (1.12.1998) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/37" id="c00446" Year="1998" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="37">1998 c. 37</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00447" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1998/37/section/24/3/b/ii" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00446" SectionRef="section-24-3-b-ii">s. 24(3)(b)(ii)</CitationSubRef>
;
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1998/2327" id="c00448" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1998" Number="2327">S.I. 1998/2327</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00449" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1998/2327/article/2/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00448" SectionRef="article-2-1">art. 2(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374691" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by virtue of
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21" id="c00450" Year="1975" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="21" Title="Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975">Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c00451" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/21/section/289G" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00450" SectionRef="section-289G">s. 289G</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13371691" Type="I">
<Para>
<Text>
Act partly in force at Royal Assent see
<CitationSubRef id="c01004" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/137/2" SectionRef="section-137-2">s. 137(2)</CitationSubRef>
; Act wholly in force at 1. 1. 1985 see
<CitationSubRef id="c01005" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/I" SectionRef="section-I">S.I</CitationSubRef>
. 1983/201 as amended by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1984/573" id="c01006" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1984" Number="573">S.I. 1984/573</Citation>
and 744.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13371701" Type="E">
<Para>
<Text>
Act (except s. 16 which applies to England and Wales) applies to Scotland only see
<CitationSubRef id="c01007" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1982/45/section/137/9" SectionRef="section-137-9">s. 137(9)</CitationSubRef>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13371711" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>Act excluded (19. 12. 1991) by City of Edinburgh District Council Order Confirmation Act (c. xix), ss. 1, 12(2), Sch. Pt. V</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c13374581" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/45" id="c01375" Year="1980" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="45">1980 c. 45</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
</Commentaries>
</Legislation>