There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003, Section 31A.
(1)Where a constable of the Police Force exercises in Scotland any power or privilege of a constable, Parts 1 and 2 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (in this section “the 2016 Act”) apply in relation to the exercise as though the power or privilege were exercised by a constable of the Police Service of Scotland.
(2)For the purposes of subsection (1)—
(a)in section 64 of the 2016 Act (police custody), references to a person arrested by a constable are to be read as including a person arrested by a constable of the Police Force,
(b)section 69 of the 2016 Act (publication of information by police) does not apply.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 31A inserted (25.1.2018) by The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/46), art. 2(2)(a)(f), Sch. 2 para. 2 (with art. 6)
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