{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/60",
  "legislation_title": "Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Repeal of statutory powers of arrest without warrant or order.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, so much of any Act (including a local Act) passed before this Act as enables a constable—\n(a) to arrest a person for an offence without a warrant; or\n(b) to arrest a person otherwise than for an offence without a warrant or an order of a court,\nshall cease to have effect.\n(2) Nothing in subsection (1) above affects the enactments specified in Schedule 2 to this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 26 excluded by Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50, SIF 42), s. 25(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:58.179601+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."
}