{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-from-abuse-scotland-act-2001/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-from-abuse-scotland-act-2001/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2001/14",
  "legislation_title": "Protection from Abuse (Scotland) Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-from-abuse-scotland-act-2001",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Powers and duties of police",
  "text": "(1) Where a power of arrest attached to an interdict has effect a constable may arrest the interdicted person without warrant if the constable—\n(a) has reasonable cause for suspecting that person of being in breach of the interdict; and\n(b) considers that there would, if that person were not arrested, be a risk of abuse or further abuse by that person in breach of the interdict.\n(2) A person who is arrested under subsection (1) must be ... detained until—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) brought before a court under section 5.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) When a person has been arrested under this section the facts and circumstances giving rise to the arrest must be reported to the procurator fiscal as soon as is practicable.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(2) omitted (25.1.2018) by virtue of The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Modification of Part 1 and Ancillary Provision) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/453), reg. 1, sch. para. 3(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 4(2)(a) omitted (25.1.2018) by virtue of The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Modification of Part 1 and Ancillary Provision) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/453), reg. 1, sch. para. 3(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 4(3)-(5) repealed (25.1.2018) by The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Modification of Part 1 and Ancillary Provision) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/453), reg. 1, sch. para. 3(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/14/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:10.759317+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."
}