{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984/section-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984/section-33.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/33",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Execution of warrant not in possession of constable.",
  "text": "In section 125 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980—\n(a) in subsection (3), for the words “arrest a person charged with an offence” there shall be substituted the words “which this subsection applies”;\n(b) the following subsection shall be added after that subsection—\n“(4) The warrants to which subsection (3) above applies are—\n(a) a warrant to arrest a person in connection with an offence;\n(b) without prejudice to paragraph (a) above, a warrant under section 186(3) of the Army Act 1955, section 186(3) of the Air Force Act 1955, section 105(3) of the Naval Discipline Act 1957 or Schedule 5 to the Reserve Forces Act 1980 (desertion etc.);\n(c) a warrant under—\n(i) section 102 or 104 of the General Rate Act 1967 (insufficiency of distress);\n(ii) section 18(4) of the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978 (protection of parties to marriage and children of family); and\n(iii) section 55, 76, 93 or 97 above.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 33 repealed (19.2.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 106, Sch. 15 Pt. V(8) (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 2001/168, art 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1980 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1955 c. 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1955 c. 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1957 c. 53"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1980 c. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "1967 c. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M7",
      "text": "1978 c. 22"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/section/33",
    "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."
}