{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-northern-ireland-act-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-northern-ireland-act-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/6",
  "legislation_title": "Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-northern-ireland-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where a designation applies this paragraph to a person—\n(a) the persons who, in the case of a person arrested by a constable, are authorised for the purposes of paragraph (1A) of Article 32of the 1989 Order (procedure on arrest of person elsewhere than at a police station) to take the person arrested to a police station include the designated person;\n(b) that Article has effect in relation to the exercise by the designated person of the power conferred by virtue of paragraph (a) as if the references to a constable in paragraphs (3), (4)(a) and (13) (but not the references in paragraphs (5) to (12)) included references to the designated person;\n(c) a person who is taking another person to a police station in exercise of the power conferred by virtue of paragraph (a)—\n(i) must be treated for all purposes as having the other person in his lawful custody;\n(ii) is under a duty to keep that person under control and to prevent the other person’s escape;\n(iii) is entitled to use reasonable force to keep the other person in his charge and under his control .\n(d) a person who has taken another person to a police station in exercise of the power conferred by virtue of paragraph (a)—\n(i) shall be under a duty to remain at the police station until he has transferred control of the other person to the custody officer at the police station;\n(ii) until he has so transferred control of the other person, shall be treated for all purposes as having that person in his lawful custody;\n(iii) for so long as he is at the police station or in its immediate vicinity in compliance with, or having complied with, his duty under sub-paragraph (i), shall be under a duty to prevent the escape of the other person and to assist in keeping him under control; and\n(iv) shall be entitled to use reasonable force for the purpose of complying with his duty under sub-paragraph (iii).\n(2) Without prejudice to any designation applying paragraph 12 to a person, where a person has another in his lawful custody by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph—\n(a) he has the same powers under paragraphs (7) and (8) of Article 55 of the 1989 Order (non-intimate searches) as a constable has in the case of a person in police detention—\n(i) to carry out a search of the other person;\n(ii) to seize or retain, or cause to be seized or retained, anything found on such a search;\n(b) paragraphs (9) and (12) of that Article (restrictions on power to seize clothes and personal effects and searches to be carried out by a member of the same sex) apply to the exercise by the designated person of any power exercisable by virtue of this sub-paragraph as they apply to the exercise of the power in question by a constable.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 22(1)(a) substituted (1.1.2005) by The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1500), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 6; S.R. 2004/391, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 22(1)(c)(ii) inserted (22.4.2007) by The Policing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/912 (N.I. 6)), art. 1(3), Sch. 3 para. 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 22(1)(c)(iii) added (22.4.2007) by The Policing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/912 (N.I. 6)), art. 1(3), Sch. 3 para. 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 22(1)(d) added (22.4.2007) by The Policing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/912 (N.I. 6)), art. 1(3), Sch. 3 para. 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2010/17",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Security Act 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2010/17",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Security Act 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2010/17",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Security Act 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/6/schedule/2/paragraph/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:35.196237+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."
}