{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-125D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-125D.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/43",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980",
  "path": "section/125D",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "125D",
  "heading": "Execution by person not in possession of warrant.",
  "text": "(1) A warrant to which section 125A(1) above applies may be executed by any person entitled to execute it even though it is not in his possession at the time.\n(2) A warrant to which this subsection applies (and which is not a warrant to which section 125A(1) above applies) may be executed by a constable even though it is not in his possession at the time.\n(3) Subsection (2) above applies to—\n(a) a warrant to arrest a person in connection with an offence;\n(b) a warrant under section 313, 314 or 317 of the Armed Forces Act 2006;\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) a warrant under section 47(8) of the Family Law Act 1996 (failure to comply with occupation order or non-molestation order);\n(e) a warrant under paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (unwilling witnesses);\n(f) a warrant under paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 4 to the Sentencing Code (offenders referred to court by youth offender panel); and\n(g) a warrant under section 55, 76, 93, 97 or 97A above.\n(4) Where by virtue of this section a warrant is executed by a person not in possession of it, it shall, on the demand of the person arrested, committed or detained or , in the case of a warrant of control, against whom the warrant is issued , be shown to him as soon as practicable.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 125D inserted (19.2.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 96 (with s. 107, Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2001/168, arts. 1, 2(a) (subject to transitional provisions in art. 3 of that S.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 125D(3)(b) substituted (28.3.2009 for certain purposes and 31.10.2009 otherwise) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 378, 383, Sch. 16 para. 89; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3 (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 125D(3)(c) repealed (6.4.2014) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), s. 148, Sch. 13 para. 61(2), Sch. 23 Pt. 3 (with s. 89); S.I. 2014/768, art. 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 125D(3)(f) substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 57 (with Sch. 24 para. 447, Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 125D(4) substituted (6.4.2014) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), s. 148, Sch. 13 para. 61(3) (with s. 89); S.I. 2014/768, art. 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1996 c.27."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1998 c.37."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 125-126 applied (temp.) (23.2.2004 and 29.3.2004 for certain purposes, otherwise 5.4.2004 until 31.3.2006) by The Fines Collection Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/176), regs. 1(3), 10 (with reg. 3) (as amended (30.3.2005) by S.I. 2005/484, regs. 1(1)(a)(2), 2, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 125D(3)(b) modified (24.4.2009 for certain purposes and 31.10.2009 otherwise) by The Armed Forces Act 2006 (Transitional Provisions etc) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1059), art. 205, Sch. 1 para. 18(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied by 2002 c. 29, s. 35P(4) (as substituted)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/20",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/43/section/125D",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:26:47.197891+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."
}