http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/section/29Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994An Act to make further provision in relation to criminal justice (including employment in the prison service); to amend or extend the criminal law and powers for preventing crime and enforcing that law; to amend the Video Recordings Act 1984; and for purposes connected with those purposes.1994-11-03texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-07-10Expert Participation2026-06-29 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994s. 51(10)(a) (ia)Criminal Justice Act 2003Sch. 36 para. 11(3)s. 336(3) (4)Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994s. 25(2)(ka)-(kc)Crime and Policing Act 2026Sch. 11 para. 6(3)s. 255(1) Part II291Part IV of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (detention of persons, including powers of police to grant bail) shall be amended as follows.2After section 46 there shall be inserted the following section—46A1A constable may arrest without a warrant any person who, having been released on bail under this Part of this Act subject to a duty to attend at a police station, fails to attend at that police station at the time appointed for him to do so.2A person who is arrested under this section shall be taken to the police station appointed as the place at which he is to surrender to custody as soon as practicable after the arrest.3For the purposes of—asection 30 above (subject to the obligation in subsection (2) above), andbsection 31 above,an arrest under this section shall be treated as an arrest for an offence..3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4In consequence of the foregoing amendments—ain section 37(1), paragraph (b) shall be omitted;bin sections 41(9), 42(11) and 43(19), at the end, there shall be inserted the words “; but this subsection does not prevent an arrest under section 46A below.”;cin section 47, subsection (5) shall be omitted;din section 47(6), for the words “is detained under subsection (5) above” there shall be substituted the words “ who has been granted bail and either has attended at the police station in accordance with the grant of bail or has been arrested under section 46A above is detained at a police station ”; andein section 47(7), at the end, there shall be inserted the words “ ; but this subsection does not apply to a person who is arrested under section 46A above or has attended a police station in accordance with the grant of bail (and who accordingly is deemed by section 34(7) above to have been arrested for an offence). ”.5This section applies whether the person released on bail was granted bail before or after the commencement of this section.1984 c. 60. S. 29(3) repealed (20.1.2004) by Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), ss. 332, 336, Sch. 37 Pt. 1; S.I. 2004/84, art. 2(2)(g)(ii)