The Act Schedule 6: Specific offences which are arrestable offences
274.This schedule inserts new Schedule 1A in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. Schedule 1A contains the list of arrestable offences to which section 24 (1)(c) applies. The list contains three new additions:
	Making off without payment which is an offence under section 3 of the Theft Act 1978 (paragraph 7);
	Driving while disqualified which is an offence under section 103(1)(b) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (paragraph 16). This offence has a power of arrest, but it is restricted to situations where, effectively, a uniformed police officer physically sees a motorist driving a vehicle whom he reasonably suspects of being disqualified. The power of arrest is therefore being extended firstly so that it can be exercised by police officers not in uniform, and secondly so that it can be exercised after the event, in relation to any person who has driven a vehicle on the road while disqualified; and
	Assaulting a police officer in the execution of his duty or a person assisting such an officer which is an offence under section 89(1) of the 1996 Act (paragraph 22).
275.The creation of three new arrestable offences will not have effect in relation to offences committed before commencement of section 48.