Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/section/58/1995-02-03?timeline=true
Timestamp: 2018-11-16 09:31:00
Document Index: 780953001

Matched Legal Cases: ['art. 4', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 6', 'art. 6', 'art. 6', 'art. 6']

Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, Section 58 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 16 November 2018. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
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(8)[F1Subject to sub-section (8A) below] An officer may only authorise delay where he has reasonable grounds for believing that the exercise of the right conferred by subsection (1) above at the time when the person detained desires to exercise it—
[F2(8A)An officer may also authorise delay where the serious arrestable offence is a drug trafficking offence [F3or an offence to which Part VI of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 applies] and the officer has reasonable grounds for believing—
[F4(a)where the offence is a drug trafficking offence, that the detained person has benefited from drug trafficking and that the recovery of the value of that person’s proceeds of drug trafficking will be hindered by the exercise of the right conferred by subsection (1) above; and
(b)where the offence is one to which Part VI of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 applies, that the detained person has benefited from the offence and that the recovery of the value of the property obtained by that person from or in connection with the offence or of the pecuniary advantage derived by him from or in connection with it will be hindered by the exercise of the right conferred by subsection (1) above.]]
(a)subsection (5) above shall have effect as if for the words from “within” onwards there were substituted the words “before the end of the period beyond which he may no longer be detained without the authority of the Secretary of State”;
(b)subsection (6)(a) above shall have effect as if for the words “for a serious arrestable offence” there were substituted the words “under the terrorism provisions”; and
(c)subsection (8) above shall have effect as if at the end there were added “or
F1Words inserted by Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (c. 32, SIF 39:1), s. 32(2)
F2S. 58(8A) inserted by Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (c. 32, SIF 39:1), s. 32(2)
F3Words inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 99(3)(a)
F4S. 58(8A)(a) and (b) substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 99(3)(b)
C1S. 58 applied with modifications by S.I. 1985/1882, art. 4, 1985/1800, arts. 3–11, Schs. 1, 2 and Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 99(4)
S. 58(1)(2)(4)(6)-(9) applied (with modifications) (1.2.1997) by S.I. 1997/15, art. 2(1),Sch.
S. 58(10)(11) applied (1.2.1997) by S.I. 1997/15, art. 2(1),Sch.
C2S. 58 extended (2.8.1993) by S.I. 1993/1813, art. 6, Sch. 3 paras. 1(2)(b), 3(2)(3); s. 58 extended by the said S.I. 1993/1813, art. 6, Sch. 3 paras. 3(3), 4 as incorporated (with modifications) (1.12.1997) by S.I. 1994/1405, art. 6, Sch. 3 paras. 4(b)(d), 5
C3S. 58(1)-(11) modified (2.8.1993) by S.I. 1993/1813, art. 6, Sch. 3 para. 3(3).