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Offences under section 1(1) of the Protection of Children Act 1978 Offences under section 160 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 Offences under section 170 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 consisting of importation in breach of the prohibition under section 42 of the Customs Consolidation Act 1876 ( 39 & 40 Vict. c. 36)
Arrestable offence is a legal term now obsolete in English law and the legal system of Northern Ireland, but still used in the legal system of the Republic of Ireland. The Criminal Law Act 1967 introduced the category to replace the ancient term felony .
As most powers of arrest relied on the offence being a felony, a new set of arrest criteria were introduced by the Criminal Law Act 1967, which created the arrestable offence (defined as an offence where an adult could be sentenced to imprisonment for five years or more).
Offences under section 90(1) of the Police Act 1996; Offences under section 30(1) of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005; Offences under section 34 of the Forgery Act 1861; Offences under section 24 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969; Offences under section 60 of the Representation of the People Act 1983; Cheating (law)
The term arrestable offence ceased to have effect as, bar a few preserved exemptions, one power of arrest now applies to all offences when the arrest is made by a constable. Where the threshold of an arrestable offence was previously used to enable specific powers of search or powers to delay certain entitlements, these powers are preserved ...
Although it is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, most of its provisions (except for some minor exceptions) apply only to England and Wales.. Several of the act's provisions were adopted, word for word, for Northern Ireland by the Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 (c. 18) (NI) and the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 (c. 28) (NI).
In England and Wales, offences under any provision of this Act other than sections 8(1) or 8(4) or 8(5) were formerly classified as arrestable offences, initially by virtue of sections 24(1)(c) and (2)(bb) [6] of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, and then by virtue of sections 24(1)(c) and (2) [7] of, and paragraph 18 of Schedule 1A [8 ...
The court can order an offender to be deprived of property he has used to commit an offence. [95] A person convicted of a drink-driving offence can be deprived of their vehicle. [96] The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 also gives courts wide-ranging powers to confiscate assets following conviction.