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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-justice-scotland-act-2016-consequential-provisions-order-2017/schedule-3/paragraph-13",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111159866",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-justice-scotland-act-2016-consequential-provisions-order-2017",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/13",
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  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Customs custody",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of provisions of the 2016 Act as applied by this Part of this Schedule, a person is in customs custody from the time the person is arrested by a designated customs official, or is transferred in accordance with the law into the custody of a designated customs official, until any one of the events mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) occurs.\n(2) The events are—\n(a) the person is released from custody;\n(b) the person is brought before a court in accordance with section 21(2) of the 2016 Act;\n(c) the person is brought before a court in accordance with section 28(2) or (3) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995;\n(d) the person is brought before a court in accordance with—\n(i) any other enactment or rule of law which requires that a person in custody be brought before a court; or\n(ii) a term of the warrant under which the person was arrested;\n(e) the person is transferred in accordance with the law into the custody of a person who is not a designated customs official;\n(f) the Principal Reporter directs under section 65(2)(b) of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 that the person continue to be kept in a place of safety.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111159866/schedule/3/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:06:14.523018+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."
}