{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-parks-trading-act-2000/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-parks-trading-act-2000/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/13",
  "legislation_title": "Royal Parks (Trading) Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-parks-trading-act-2000",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Seizure of property.",
  "text": "(1) A park constable who reasonably suspects that a person has committed a park trading offence may, subject to subsection (2), seize anything of a non-perishable nature which—\n(a) the person has in his possession or under his control, and\n(b) the constable reasonably believes to have been used in the commission of the offence.\n(2) A park constable may exercise the power conferred by subsection (1) only in the park where he has jurisdiction.\n(3) In this section “park constable” has the meaning given by section 3 of the Parks Regulation Act 1872.\n(4) In the application of this section to a specified park—\n(a) the reference in subsection (1) to a park constable has effect as a reference to a constable, and\n(b) subsections (2) and (3) do not apply.\n(5) In subsection (4) “ specified park ” has the same meaning as in section 162 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4(4)(5) added (8.5.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 13 para. 9; S.I. 2006/1085, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1872 c. 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 4-6 power to apply conferred by 1926 c. 36, s. 2(1A) (as inserted (19.12.2011) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), ss. 150(1), 157(1); S.I. 2011/2834, art. 2(j))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 4, 5 applied by SI 1997/1639 reg. 3C (as inserted (28.3.2012) by The Royal Parks and Other Open Spaces (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/957), regs. 1, 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/13/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:06.932669+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."
}