{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/section-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/section-30.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/20",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026",
  "path": "section/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Power to seize bladed articles etc",
  "text": "(1) A constable who—\n(a) is lawfully on any premises,\n(b) finds, on the premises, an article which has a blade or is sharply pointed (a “relevant article”), and\n(c) has reasonable grounds for suspecting that the relevant article would be likely to be used in connection with unlawful violence (if it were not seized),\nmay seize the relevant article.\n(2) The following provisions apply where a relevant article is seized under this section.\n(3) The constable who seized the relevant article—\n(a) must give a record of what was seized to a person who is on the premises, or\n(b) if there is no person on the premises, must leave a record of what was seized in a prominent place on the premises.\n(4) The record must—\n(a) describe the relevant article,\n(b) state that it has been seized under this section,\n(c) specify the date of seizure,\n(d) give the reason why the relevant article was seized, and\n(e) specify the name and reference number of the constable who seized the relevant article.\n(5) Following seizure of the relevant article, a constable may—\n(a) retain it, or\n(b) destroy it or otherwise dispose of it.\nThis is subject to subsections (6) and (8).\n(6) A person claiming to be the owner of the relevant article may apply to a magistrates’ court for an order for the delivery of the relevant article to the person.\n(7) The court may make an order under subsection (6) if it appears to the court that—\n(a) the person making the application is the owner of the relevant article, and\n(b) it would be just to make the order.\n(8) The relevant article may not be destroyed or disposed of—\n(a) in the period of 6 months beginning with the day on which it is seized, or\n(b) if an application under subsection (6) is made in that period, until the application (including any appeal) has been finally determined or otherwise disposed of (and then, only if the court does not make an order under that subsection).\n(9) In this section “unlawful violence” includes—\n(a) unlawful damage to property, and\n(b) a threat of unlawful violence (including of unlawful damage to property).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 30 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/20/section/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:58.060228+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."
}