{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-security-act-2023/schedule-6/paragraph-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-security-act-2023/schedule-6/paragraph-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/32",
  "legislation_title": "National Security Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-security-act-2023",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/37",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Warrants of further detention",
  "text": "(1) Each of the following—\n(a) in England and Wales, a Crown Prosecutor,\n(b) in Scotland, the Lord Advocate or a procurator fiscal,\n(c) in Northern Ireland, the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland,\n(d) in any part of the United Kingdom, a police officer of at least the rank of superintendent,\nmay apply to a judicial authority for the issue of a warrant of further detention in relation to a person.\n(2) A warrant of further detention is a warrant—\n(a) authorising the further detention under section 27 of a person for the specified period, and\n(b) stating the time at which it is issued.\n(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4) and paragraph 44, the specified period in relation to a person is the period of 7 days beginning with the time of the person’s arrest under section 27.\n(4) A judicial authority may issue a warrant of further detention in relation to a person which specifies a shorter period as the period for which the person’s further detention is authorised if—\n(a) the application for the warrant is an application for a warrant specifying a shorter period, or\n(b) the judicial authority is satisfied that there are circumstances that would make it inappropriate for the specified period to be as long as the period of 7 days mentioned in sub-paragraph (3).\n(5) In this Part “judicial authority” means—\n(a) in England and Wales, a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) who is designated for the purpose of this Part by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales,\n(b) in Scotland, a sheriff, and\n(c) in Northern Ireland, a district judge (magistrates’ courts) in Northern Ireland who is designated for the purpose of this Part by the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.\n(6) The Lord Chief Justice may nominate a judicial office holder (as defined in section 109(4) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) to exercise the functions under sub-paragraph (5)(a).\n(7) The Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland may nominate any of the following to exercise the functions under sub-paragraph (5)(c)—\n(a) the holder of one of the offices listed in Schedule 1 to the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002;\n(b) a Lord Justice of Appeal (as defined in section 88 of that Act).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 37 not in force at Royal Assent, see 100(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 37 in force at 20.12.2023 by S.I. 2023/1272, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/32/schedule/6/paragraph/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:52:07.318384+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."
}