14 Immigration officer: power of arrest
Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 (2004 c 19) | Legislation

Enforcement powers

14  Immigration officer: power of arrest

(1)     Where an immigration officer in the course of exercising a function under the Immigration Acts forms a reasonable suspicion that a person has committed or attempted to commit an offence listed in subsection (2), he may arrest the person without warrant.

(2)     Those offences are—

(a)     the offence of conspiracy at common law (in relation to conspiracy to defraud),

(b)     at common law in Scotland, any of the following offences—

(i)     fraud,

(ii)     conspiracy to defraud,

(iii)     uttering and fraud,

(iv)     . . .

(v)     theft, and

(vi)     reset,

[(ba)     an offence under section 24(A1) of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c 15) (offences),]

(c)     an offence under section 57 of the Offences

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