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[F1 SCHEDULE 10U.K. Consequential Amendments]

Extent Information

E1The provisions of Sch. 10 are co-extensive with the enactments they affect, see s. 172(16)

Textual Amendments

Intimate samples: speculative searchesU.K.

57U.K.In section 62 of the M1Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (which regulates the taking of intimate body samples)—

(a)after subsection (7) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(7A)If an intimate sample is taken from a person at a police station—

(a)before the sample is taken, an officer shall inform him that it may be the subject of a speculative search; and

(b)the fact that the person has been informed of this possibility shall be recorded as soon as practicable after the sample has been taken.; and

(b)in subsection (8), after the words “subsection (7)” there shall be inserted the words “ or (7A) ”.

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