{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984/section-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984/section-48.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/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Remands to police detention.",
  "text": "In section 128 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980—\n(a) in subsection (7) for the words “the custody of a constable” there shall be substituted the words “detention at a police station”;\n(b) after subsection (7) there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(8) Where a person is committed to detention at a police station under subsection (7) above—\n(a) he shall not be kept in such detention unless there is a need for him to be so detained for the purposes of inquiries into other offences;\n(b) if kept in such detention, he shall be brought back before the magistrates’ court which committed him as soon as that need ceases;\n(c) he shall be treated as a person in police detention to whom the duties under section 39 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (responsibilities in relation to persons detained) relate;\n(d) his detention shall be subject to periodic review at the times set out in section 40 of that Act (review of police detention).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/section/48",
    "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."
}