{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-act-2002/section-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-act-2002/section-50.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/30",
  "legislation_title": "Police Reform Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-act-2002",
  "path": "section/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Persons engaging in anti-social behaviour",
  "text": "(1) If a constable in uniform has reason to believe that a person has engaged, or is engaging, in anti-social behaviour ..., he may require that person to give his name and address to the constable.\n(1A) In subsection (1) “anti-social behaviour” means—\n(a) conduct that has caused, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to any person, or\n(b) housing-related anti-social conduct, as defined by section 2 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (ignoring subsection (2) of that section).\n(2) Any person who—\n(a) fails to give his name and address when required to do so under subsection (1), or\n(b) gives a false or inaccurate name or address in response to a requirement under that subsection,\nis guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 50(1) substituted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 3.4.2017 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 12 para. 33(2); S.I. 2017/399, reg. 2, Sch. para. 40"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 50(1) omitted (23.3.2015) by virtue of Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12), s. 185(1), Sch. 11 para. 31(2) (with ss. 21, 33, 42, 58, 75, 93); S.I. 2015/373, art. 4(f)(viii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 50(1A) substituted (26.10.2026) by Crime and Policing Act 2026 (c. 20), s. 255(1), Sch. 1 para. 26 (with s. 2(3)); S.I. 2026/960, reg. 4(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 50 heading substituted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 3.4.2017 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 12 para. 33(3); S.I. 2017/399, reg. 2, Sch. para. 40"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/30/section/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:50.998378+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."
}