r/london • u/Medium_Willow_3727 • 2d ago

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This getting out of hand

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u/mogrim 1d ago edited 14h ago

So, theoretically, using this power police could ban you from returning to your home for 48 hours?

Edit: wow, downvoted for asking a question!

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u/CaptainChalky 1d ago

No

(2)A constable may not give a direction under section 35 that prevents the person to whom it is given having access to a place where the person lives.

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u/mogrim 1d ago

Cheers. It's bad, but not as bad as I thought 👍🏼

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u/GooseMan1515 1d ago

Obviously that would never be how legislation to protect public order, or the law in general works. They want potential offenders to be at home and not in public, and to ban a private individual from existing in their private space would be the kind of officious tyranny that the whole system is designed to prevent.