# The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2017, Paragraph 13: Customs custody


(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.
(2) The events are—
(a) the person is released from custody;
(b) the person is brought before a court in accordance with section 21(2) of the 2016 Act;
(c) the person is brought before a court in accordance with section 28(2) or (3) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995;
(d) the person is brought before a court in accordance with—
(i) any other enactment or rule of law which requires that a person in custody be brought before a court; or
(ii) a term of the warrant under which the person was arrested;
(e) the person is transferred in accordance with the law into the custody of a person who is not a designated customs official;
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111159866/schedule/3/paragraph/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-justice-scotland-act-2016-consequential-provisions-order-2017/schedule-3/paragraph-13
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