Section 33 Execution of warrant not in possession of constable.F1

England and Wales

In section 125 of the M1Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980—

(a)

in subsection (3), for the words “arrest a person charged with an offence” there shall be substituted the words “which this subsection applies”;

(b)

the following subsection shall be added after that subsection—

“(4)
The warrants to which subsection (3) above applies are—
(a)
a warrant to arrest a person in connection with an offence;
(b)
without prejudice to paragraph (a) above, a warrant under section 186(3) of the M2Army Act 1955, section 186(3) of the M3Air Force Act 1955, section 105(3) of the M4Naval Discipline Act 1957 or Schedule 5 to the M5Reserve Forces Act 1980 (desertion etc.);
(c)
a warrant under—
(i)
section 102 or 104 of the M6General Rate Act 1967 (insufficiency of distress);
(ii)
section 18(4) of the M7Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978 (protection of parties to marriage and children of family); and
(iii)
section 55, 76, 93 or 97 above.”