Part VIIU.K. Miscellaneous and General

Evidence: special provisionsU.K.

64 Checks against fingerprints etc.E+W+N.I.

[F1(1)In section 63A of the M1Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 the following subsections shall be substituted for subsection (1) (checks against fingerprints etc. where a person has been arrested on suspicion of being involved in a recordable offence)—

“(1)Where a person has been arrested on suspicion of being involved in a recordable offence or has been charged with such an offence or has been informed that he will be reported for such an offence, fingerprints or samples or the information derived from samples taken under any power conferred by this Part of this Act from the person may be checked against—

(a)other fingerprints or samples to which the person seeking to check has access and which are held by or on behalf of a police force (or police forces) falling within subsection (1A) below or are held in connection with or as a result of an investigation of an offence;

(b)information derived from other samples if the information is contained in records to which the person seeking to check has access and which are held as mentioned in paragraph (a) above.

(1A)Each of the following police forces falls within this subsection—

(a)a police force within the meaning given by section 62 of the M2Police Act 1964 (which relates to England and Wales);

(b)a police force within the meaning given by section 50 of the M3Police (Scotland) Act 1967;

(c)the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve;

(d)the States of Jersey Police Force;

(e)the salaried police force of the Island of Guernsey;

(f)the Isle of Man Constabulary.”

(2)This section applies where a person—

(a)is arrested on suspicion of being involved in a recordable offence,

(b)is charged with a recordable offence, or

(c)is informed that he will be reported for a recordable offence,

after the day on which this Act is passed.]