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Section 26: Repeal of statutory powers of arrest without warrant or order.

Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 · 1984 c. 60View on legislation.gov.uk

Part III: Arrest

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

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

shall cease to have effect.

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

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