21 Schedule 1 offences: power of constable to take offender into custody.S
(1)Without prejudice to any other powers of arrest, a constable may take into custody without warrant—
(a)any person who within his view commits any of the offences mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Act, if the constable does not know and cannot ascertain his name and address;
(b)any person who has committed, or whom he had reason to believe to have committed, any of the offences mentioned in that Schedule, if the constable does not know and cannot ascertain his name and address or has reasonable ground for believing that he will abscond.
(2)F1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3)F1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4)F1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(5)F1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Textual Amendments
F1S. 21(2)-(5) repealed (10.3.2008) by Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6), ss. 7(1), 84; S.S.I. 2008/42, art. 3, Sch. (subject to art. 4)