{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aviation-offences-act-2003/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aviation-offences-act-2003/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/19",
  "legislation_title": "Aviation (Offences) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aviation-offences-act-2003",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Arrest without warrant",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The following shall be inserted after section 82(3) of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (c. 24) (aviation security: arrest in Scotland without warrant)—\n“(3A) Where, in Scotland, a constable has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person has committed an offence of contravening a provision of an Order in Council made under section 60 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982 (Air Navigation Orders) and the offence relates to—\n(a) a provision which prohibits specified behaviour by a person in an aircraft towards a member of the crew of the aircraft,\n(b) a provision which prohibits a person from being drunk in an aircraft, in so far as the provision applies to passengers, or\n(c) a provision which prohibits specified behaviour by a person, being behaviour which is likely to endanger an aircraft, or a person in an aircraft,\nthe constable may arrest that person without warrant.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1(1) repealed (1.1.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8)(8), Sch. 17 Pt. 2; S.I. 2005/3495, art. 2(1)(u)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 1(2) repealed (N.I.) (1.3.2007) by The Police and Criminal Evidence (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/288), art. 1(2), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/19/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:21.196684+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}