The Electronic Fingerprinting etc. Device Approval (Scotland) Order 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 1939 (S. 140)

POLICE

The Electronic Fingerprinting etc. Device Approval (Scotland) Order 1997

Made

1st August 1997

Coming into force

8th August 1997

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 18(7B) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995F1 , and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

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Amendments (Textual)

F1 1995 c.46; section 18(7B) was inserted by the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997 (c.48), section 47(1)(d).

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Electronic Fingerprinting etc. Device Approval (Scotland) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 8th August 1997.

Device approved

2.  For the purpose of creating such records as are mentioned in paragraph (d) of section 18(7A) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (record of a person’s skin on an external part of the body), the device known as the Digital Biometrics Incorporation (DBI) Tenprinter 1133S, with palmprint option, is hereby approved.

Henry McLeish

Minister of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh

1st August 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order approves the device known as the Digital Biometrics Incorporation (DBI) Tenprinter 1133S, with palmprint option, for the purpose of creating such records as are mentioned in paragraph (d) of section 18(7A) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (records of a person’s skin on an external part of the body).