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Article 47A Power of arrest for failure to answer to police bailF1C1

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

C2(1)

A constable may arrest without a warrant any person who, having been released on bail under this Part subject to a duty to attend at a police station, fails to attend at that police station at the time appointed for him to do so.

(2)

A person who is arrested under this Article shall be taken to the police station appointed as the place at which he is to surrender to custody as soon as practicable after the arrest.

(3)

For the purposes of—

(a)

Article 32 (subject to the obligation in paragraph (2), and

(b)

Article 33,

an arrest under this Article shall be treated as an arrest for an offence.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

1995 NI 17

Modifications

C1

Art. 47A applied (with modifications) (10.2.2026) by The Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (Application to Immigration Officers and Designated Customs Officials in Northern Ireland) and Consequential Amendments Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/117), regs. 1(2), 3-6, 9(2), Sch. 1

C2

Art. 47A(1)-(3) applied (with modifications) (10.2.2026) by The Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (Application to Immigration Officers and Designated Customs Officials in Northern Ireland) and Consequential Amendments Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/117), regs. 1(2), 12-15, 18(2), Sch. 2

Notes on the whole Order

Textual amendments

F1

mod. by 2005 c. 2