{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-criminal-court-act-2001/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-criminal-court-act-2001/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2001/17",
  "legislation_title": "International Criminal Court Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-criminal-court-act-2001",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Request for provisional arrest",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where the Secretary of State receives from the ICC a request for the provisional arrest of a person alleged to have committed an ICC crime or to have been convicted by the ICC.\n(2) If it appears to the Secretary of State that application for a warrant should be made in England and Wales—\n(a) he shall transmit the request to a constable and direct the constable to apply for a warrant for the arrest of that person, and\n(b) on an application by a constable stating on oath that he has reason to believe—\n(i) that a request has been made on grounds of urgency by the ICC for the arrest of a person, and\n(ii) that the person is in, or on his way to, the United Kingdom,\nan appropriate judicial officer shall issue a warrant for the arrest of that person.\n(3) If it appears to the Secretary of State that application for a warrant should be made in Scotland—\n(a) he shall transmit the request to the Scottish Ministers who shall instruct the procurator fiscal to apply for a warrant for the arrest of that person, and\n(b) on the application by the procurator fiscal, which shall state—\n(i) that a request has been made on grounds of urgency by the ICC for the arrest of a person, and\n(ii) that the person is in, or on his way to, Scotland,\nan appropriate judicial officer shall issue a warrant for the arrest of that person.\n(4) Where an appropriate judicial officer issues a warrant under this section, he shall notify the Secretary of State and, where the proceedings are in Scotland, the Scottish Ministers that he has done so.\n(5) In this Part a warrant issued under this section is referred to as a “provisional warrant”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:59.444920+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."
}