{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/section-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/section-72.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/3",
  "legislation_title": "Policing and Crime Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017",
  "path": "section/72",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "PACE: entry and search of premises for the purpose of arrest",
  "text": "In section 17 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (entry for the purpose of arrest) after subsection (1)(caa) insert—\n“(cab) of arresting a person under any of the following provisions—\n(i) section 30D(1) or (2A);\n(ii) section 46A(1) or (1A);\n(iii) section 5B(7) of the Bail Act 1976 (arrest where a person fails to surrender to custody in accordance with a court order);\n(iv) section 7(3) of the Bail Act 1976 (arrest where a person is not likely to surrender to custody etc);\n(v) section 97(1) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (arrest where a child is suspected of breaking conditions of remand);”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 72 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 183"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/3/section/72",
    "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."
}