{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/extradition-act-2003/section-189C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/extradition-act-2003/section-189C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/41",
  "legislation_title": "Extradition Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/extradition-act-2003",
  "path": "section/189C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "189C",
  "heading": "Exercise of the extradition transit powers",
  "text": "(1) The extradition transit powers include power to use reasonable force when necessary.\n(2) An authorised officer may not, when exercising a relevant search power, require a person to remove any clothing other than an outer coat, jacket, headgear or gloves.\n(3) Any item seized from a person in the exercise of a relevant search power may be retained while the person is in transit through the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 189A-189E and cross-heading inserted (1.5.2021) by Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12), ss. 168, 185(1) (with ss. 21, 33, 42, 58, 75, 93); S.I. 2021/532, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/41/section/189C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:50.673746+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."
}