s 151 Customs and Excise power of arrest.
(1) If— (a) a person— (i) has been released on bail in criminal proceedings for an offence falling within subsection (4) below; and (ii) is under a duty to surrender into customs detention; and (b) an officer of Customs and Excise has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is not likely to surrender to custody, he may be arrested without warrant by an officer of Customs and Excise. (2) A person arrested in pursuance of subsection (1) above shall be brought as soon as practicable and in any event within 24 hours after his arrest before a justice of the peace . . . . (3) In reckoning for the purposes of subsection (2) above any period of 24 hours, no account shall be taken of Christmas Day, Good Friday or any Sunday. (4) The offences that fall within this subsection are— (a) an offence against section 5(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (possession of controlled drugs); . . . (b) a drug trafficking offence. (c) a money laundering offence; (5) In this section and section 152 below “ drug trafficking offence ” means any offence which is specified in— (a) paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (drug trafficking offences), or (b) so far as it relates to that paragraph, paragraph 10 of that Schedule. (6) In this section “ money laundering offence ” means any offence which by virtue of section 415 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 is a money laundering offence for the purposes of Part 8 of that Act.