{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/section-73",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/section-73.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/3",
  "legislation_title": "Policing and Crime Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017",
  "path": "section/73",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "PACE: treatment of those aged 17",
  "text": "(1) The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 30A (bail elsewhere than at police station), in subsection (3B)(d), for “under the age of 17” substitute “ under the age of 18 ”.\n(3) In section 63B (testing for presence of class A drugs)—\n(a) in subsection (5A), for “has not attained the age of 17” substitute “ has not attained the age of 18 ”;\n(b) in subsection (10), in the definition of “appropriate adult”, for “has not attained the age of 17” substitute “ has not attained the age of 18 ”.\n(4) In section 65 (which makes provision to supplement the provisions of Part 5 on the questioning and treatment of persons by the police), in subsection (1), in the definition of “appropriate consent”, in paragraph (a), for “has attained the age of 17 years” substitute “ has attained the age of 18 years ”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 73 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/73",
    "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."
}