A discriminantal hyperplane arrangement \(\mathcal {B}(n,k,\mathcal {A})\) is constructed from a given generic hyperplane arrangement \(\mathcal {A}\) . The arrangement \(\mathcal {A}\) is classified as either very generic or non-very generic according to the combinatorial structure of \(\mathcal {B}(n,k,\mathcal {A})\) . In particular, \(\mathcal {A}\) is regarded as non-very generic if the intersection lattice of \(\mathcal {B}(n,k,\mathcal {A})\) contains at least one non-very generic intersection, namely, an intersection that does not satisfy a specific rank condition established by Athanasiadis. In this paper, we present arithmetic criteria characterizing non-very generic intersections in discriminantal arrangements, and we complete and correct a previous result of Libgober and the third author concerning rank 2 intersections in such arrangements.