The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2018

Modification of Part 10 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

6.  In section 140(4), for the words from “the arrested” to the end, substitute—

any enactment or rule of law which concerns—

(a)the powers and duties of a constable who effects an arrest under a power which a constable of the Police Service of Scotland could have exercised to effect the arrest;

(b)the rights of a person arrested under that power of arrest;

(c)the procedures to be followed after an arrest under that power,

applies in relation to the arrest as though the constable who effected the arrest were a constable of a police force in Scotland.