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Policing and Crime Act 2017

An Act to make provision for collaboration between the emergency services; to make provision about the handling of police complaints and other matters relating to police conduct and to make further provision about the Independent Police Complaints Commission; to make provision for super-complaints about policing; to make provision for the investigation of concerns about policing raised by whistle-blowers; to make provision about police discipline; to make provision about police inspection; to make provision about the powers of police civilian staff and police volunteers; to remove the powers of the police to appoint traffic wardens; to enable provision to be made to alter police ranks; to make provision about the Police Federation; to make provision in connection with the replacement of the Association of Chief Police Officers with the National Police Chiefs' Council; to make provision about the system for bail after arrest but before charge; to make provision about the retention of biometric material; to make provision to enable greater use of modern technology at police stations; to make other amendments to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984; to amend the powers of the police under the Mental Health Act 1983; to extend the powers of the police in relation to maritime enforcement; to make provision for cross-border enforcement; to make provision about the powers of the police to require removal of disguises; to make provision about deputy police and crime commissioners and the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime; to make provision to enable changes to the names of police areas; to make provision about the regulation of firearms and pyrotechnic articles; to make provision about the licensing of alcohol; to make provision about the implementation and enforcement of financial sanctions; to amend the Police Act 1996 to make further provision about police collaboration; to make provision about the powers of the National Crime Agency; to make provision for requiring arrested persons to provide details of nationality; to make provision for requiring defendants in criminal proceedings to provide details of nationality and other information; to make provision about the seizure etc of invalid travel documents; to make provision for pardons for convictions etc for certain abolished offences; to make provision to protect the anonymity of victims of forced marriage; to increase the maximum sentences of imprisonment for certain offences of putting people in fear of violence etc; to make provision to combat the sexual exploitation of children and to protect children and vulnerable adults from harm; to make provision about coroners' duties in respect of deaths in state detention; to make provision about the powers of litter authorities in Scotland; and for connected purposes.

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Policing and Crime Act 2017

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The Policing and Crime Act 2017 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

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Part 4Police powers

CHAPTER 1Pre-charge bail

Re-arrest of person released under provisions of PACE

I165Release under provisions of PACE: re-arrest

1

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 is amended as follows.

2

In section 30C(4) (re-arrest without warrant of person released under section 30A) for the words from “new” to the end substitute “ , since the person's release, new evidence has come to light or an examination or analysis of existing evidence has been made which could not reasonably have been made before the person's release ”.

3

In section 41(9) (re-arrest without warrant of person released under section 41(7)) for the words from “new” to “since” substitute “ , since the person's release, new evidence has come to light or an examination or analysis of existing evidence has been made which could not reasonably have been made before ”.

4

In section 42(11) (re-arrest without warrant of person released under section 42(10)) for the words from “new” to “since” substitute “ , since the person's release, new evidence has come to light or an examination or analysis of existing evidence has been made which could not reasonably have been made before ”.

5

In section 43(19) (re-arrest without warrant of person released under section 43(18)) for the words from “new” to “since” substitute “ , since the person's release, new evidence has come to light or an examination or analysis of existing evidence has been made which could not reasonably have been made before ”.

6

In section 47(2) (re-arrest without warrant of person released on bail subject to a duty to attend at a police station) for the words from “new” to the end substitute “ , since the person's release, new evidence has come to light or an examination or analysis of existing evidence has been made which could not reasonably have been made before the person's release ”.