{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/section-104",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/section-104.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/3",
  "legislation_title": "Policing and Crime Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017",
  "path": "section/104",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "104",
  "heading": "Maritime enforcement powers: other supplementary provision",
  "text": "(1) A law enforcement officer may—\n(a) be accompanied by other persons, and\n(b) take equipment or materials,\nto assist the officer in the exercise of powers under this Chapter.\n(2) A law enforcement officer may use reasonable force, if necessary, in the performance of functions under this Chapter.\n(3) A person accompanying a law enforcement officer under subsection (1) may perform any of the officer's functions under this Chapter, but only under the officer's supervision.\n(4) A law enforcement officer must produce evidence of the officer's authority if asked to do so.\n(5) The powers conferred by this Chapter do not affect any other powers that a law enforcement officer may have.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 104 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 183"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 104 in force at 1.3.2018 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2018/227, reg. 2(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/3/section/104",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:52.204895+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."
}