{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civic-government-scotland-act-1982/section-80",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civic-government-scotland-act-1982/section-80.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/45",
  "legislation_title": "Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civic-government-scotland-act-1982",
  "path": "section/80",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "80",
  "heading": "Application of Part VII to property.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, this Part of this Act applies to all the property which is found in the possession of a person, or in his charge, at the time when he is taken into police custody, that is to say, when he is arrested by a constable.\n(2) This Part of this Act does not apply to—\n(a) property which is, or is reasonably suspected by a constable to be, in the unlawful possession of a person taken into police custody;\n(b) property which the prosecutor determines is or may be required as a production in criminal proceedings or which he determines is or may be required for any other purpose relating to such proceedings;\n(c) property consisting of the personal clothing and effects of a person taken into police custody.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 80(1) substituted (25.1.2018) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 1), s. 117(2), sch. 2 para. 7(d); S.S.I. 2017/345, art. 3, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 80(2)(b) substituted (19.5.1997) by 1997 c. 30, ss. 6(2), 7(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/80",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:10:54.687186+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."
}