{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-law-consolidation-scotland-act-1995/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-law-consolidation-scotland-act-1995/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/39",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-law-consolidation-scotland-act-1995",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Police powers of enforcement.",
  "text": "For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Part of this Act, a constable shall have the power without warrant—\n(a) to enter a designated sports ground at any time during the period of a designated sporting event;\n(b) to search a person who he has reasonable grounds to suspect is committing or has committed an offence under this Part of this Act;\n(c) to stop and search a vehicle where he has reasonable grounds to suspect that an offence under section 19 of this Act is being or has been committed;\n(d) to arrest a person who he has reasonable grounds to suspect is committing or has committed an offence under this Part of this Act;\n(e) to seize and detain—\n(i) with its contents (if any), a controlled container as defined in section 20(8) of this Act; or\n(ii) with its contents, any other container if he has reasonable grounds to suspect that those contents are or include alcohol ; or\n(iii) a controlled article or substance as defined in section 20(8) of this Act.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 21(e)(iii) and word preceding it inserted (1.8.1997) by 1997 c. 48, s. 62(1), Sch. 1 para. 18(5); S.I. 1997/1712, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/39/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:48.291267+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."
}