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c. 601

1981 CHAPTER 60 An Act to make further provision in relation to the powers and duties of the police, persons in police detention, criminal evidence, police discipline and complaints against the police; to provide for arrangements for obtaining the views of the community on policing and for a rank of deputy chief constable; to amend the law relating to the Police Federations and Police Forces and Police Cadets in Scotland; and for connected purposes.

by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1.—(1) A constable may exercise any power conferred by this section—
 * (a) in any place to which at the time when he proposes to exercise the power the public or any section of the  public has access, on payment or otherwise, as of right  or by virtue of express or implied permission; or
 * (b) in any other place to which people have ready access at the time when he proposes to exercise the power but which is not a dwelling.

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