{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022/section-121",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022/section-121.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/32",
  "legislation_title": "Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022",
  "path": "section/121",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "121",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part 6",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“the 1984 Act” means the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984;\n“authorised person” has the meaning given by section 98(7);\n“community remedy document” means the community remedy document (as revised from time to time) published under section 101 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 for the police area where the offence in question was committed;\n“excluded offence” has the meaning given by section 98(6);\n“indictable-only offence” means an offence which, if committed by an adult, is triable only on indictment;\n“investigating officer” means—\n(a)an officer of Revenue and Customs appointed in accordance with section 2(1) of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005, or\n(b)a person designated as a policing support officer or a policing support volunteer under section 38 of the Police Reform Act 2002;\n“police detention” has the same meaning as in the 1984 Act (see section 118(2) of that Act);\n“prosecution authority” means—\n(a)the Attorney General;\n(b)the Director of Public Prosecutions;\n(c)the Director of the Serious Fraud Office;\n(d)the Secretary of State;\n(e)a person prescribed in regulations;\n“victim”, in relation to an offence, means the particular person who appears to have been affected, or principally affected, by the offence.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 121 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 208(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/32/section/121",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:35.152975+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."
}