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Policing and Crime Act 2017

An Act to make provision for collaboration between the emergency services; to make provision about the handling of police complaints and other matters relating to police conduct and to make further provision about the Independent Police Complaints Commission; to make provision for super-complaints about policing; to make provision for the investigation of concerns about policing raised by whistle-blowers; to make provision about police discipline; to make provision about police inspection; to make provision about the powers of police civilian staff and police volunteers; to remove the powers of the police to appoint traffic wardens; to enable provision to be made to alter police ranks; to make provision about the Police Federation; to make provision in connection with the replacement of the Association of Chief Police Officers with the National Police Chiefs' Council; to make provision about the system for bail after arrest but before charge; to make provision about the retention of biometric material; to make provision to enable greater use of modern technology at police stations; to make other amendments to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984; to amend the powers of the police under the Mental Health Act 1983; to extend the powers of the police in relation to maritime enforcement; to make provision for cross-border enforcement; to make provision about the powers of the police to require removal of disguises; to make provision about deputy police and crime commissioners and the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime; to make provision to enable changes to the names of police areas; to make provision about the regulation of firearms and pyrotechnic articles; to make provision about the licensing of alcohol; to make provision about the implementation and enforcement of financial sanctions; to amend the Police Act 1996 to make further provision about police collaboration; to make provision about the powers of the National Crime Agency; to make provision for requiring arrested persons to provide details of nationality; to make provision for requiring defendants in criminal proceedings to provide details of nationality and other information; to make provision about the seizure etc of invalid travel documents; to make provision for pardons for convictions etc for certain abolished offences; to make provision to protect the anonymity of victims of forced marriage; to increase the maximum sentences of imprisonment for certain offences of putting people in fear of violence etc; to make provision to combat the sexual exploitation of children and to protect children and vulnerable adults from harm; to make provision about coroners' duties in respect of deaths in state detention; to make provision about the powers of litter authorities in Scotland; and for connected purposes.

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Policing and Crime Act 2017

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The Policing and Crime Act 2017 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

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Part 4Police powers

CHAPTER 1Pre-charge bail

Release without bail or on bail

I153Section 52: consequential amendments

1

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 is amended as follows.

2

In section 18(5)(a) (circumstances in which a search after arrest may be conducted) omit “on bail”.

3

In section 30 (arrest elsewhere than at police station)—

a

in subsection (1B) for “on bail” substitute “ of a person arrested elsewhere than at police station ”,

b

in subsection (7A) omit the words from “or releasing” to the end, and

c

in subsections (10) and (11) for “on bail” substitute “ under section 30A ”.

4

Section 30B (section 30A: notices) is amended as follows.

5

In the heading omit “Bail under”.

6

In subsection (1) for “grants bail to” substitute “ releases ”.

7

In subsection (2)—

a

omit the “and” before paragraph (b), and

b

after paragraph (b) insert

and
c
whether the person is being released without bail or on bail

8

In subsection (3) for “The notice” substitute “ A notice given to a person who is released on bail ”.

9

In section 30C (section 30A: supplemental)—

a

in the heading omit “Bail under”, and

b

in subsection (4) omit “on bail”.