{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fugitive-offenders-anguilla-order-1987/schedule/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fugitive-offenders-anguilla-order-1987/schedule/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/452",
  "legislation_title": "The Fugitive Offenders (Anguilla) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fugitive-offenders-anguilla-order-1987",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Arrest for purposes of committal.",
  "text": "(1) A warrant for the arrest of a person accused of a relevant offence, or alleged to be unlawfully at large after conviction of such an offence, may be issued—\n(a) on the receipt of an authority to proceed, by a magistrate in Anguilla;\n(b) without such an authority, by a magistrate in Anguilla, upon information that the said person is or is believed to be in or on his way to Anguilla;\nand any warrant issued by virtue of paragraph (b) above is in this Act referred to as a provisional warrant.\n(2) A warrant of arrest under this section may be issued upon such evidence as would, in the opinion of the magistrate, authorise the issue of a warrant for the arrest of a person accused of committing a corresponding offence or, as the case may be, of a person alleged to be unlawfully at large after conviction of an offence, within the jurisdiction of the magistrate.\n(3) Where a provisional warrant is issued under this section, the authority by whom it is issued shall forthwith give notice to the Governor, and transmit to him the information and evidence, or certified copies of the information and evidence, upon which it was issued; and the Governor may in any case, and shall if he decides not to issue an authority to proceed in respect of the person to whom the warrant relates, by order cancel the warrant and, if that person has been arrested thereunder, discharge him from custody.\n(4) A warrant of arrest issued under this section may be executed in any part of Anguilla and may be executed by any person to whom it is directed or by any member of the Anguilla Police Force.\n(5) Where a warrant is issued under this section for the arrest of a person accused of an offence of stealing or receiving stolen property or any other offence in respect of property, a magistrate or justice of the peace in any part of Anguilla shall have the like power to issue a warrant to search for the property as if the offence had been committed within the jurisdiction of the magistrate or justice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/452/schedule/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:29:34.887920+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."
}