Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 No. 18

Prospective

PART 9 N.I. POWER OF POLICE TO REMOVE PERSON TO PLACE OF SAFETY

Duties and powers of police where person removed to place of safety N.I.

Intimate searches N.I.

155  Article 56 of PACE (intimate searches) applies in relation to a person detained in a place of safety under this Part as if—

(a) in paragraph (1)(a) the reference to a person who has been arrested and is in police detention were a reference to a person detained in a place of safety under this Part;

(b) in paragraph (1)(a)(ii) the reference to police detention or the custody of a court were a reference to detention under this Part;

(c) paragraphs (1)(b), (3A) to (4), (9), (10A), (12)(a)(iii) and (13A) were omitted.