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.

Searches of person following removal to place of safety N.I.

153  Article 55 of PACE (searches of detained persons) applies in relation to a person detained in a place of safety under this Part as if—

(a) in paragraph (1) the reference to a person who has been brought to a police station after being arrested elsewhere were to a person who has been brought to a police station under section 139 or under section 145 (except from another police station);

(b) paragraph (4)(a)(iii) were omitted;

(c) in paragraph (7) the reference to the person mentioned there were to a person detained in a place of safety under this Part.