Amendment of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984

5.—(1) In section 6 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (stop and search powers:statutory undertakers etc.), after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection–

“(1A) Without prejudice to any powers under subsection (1) above, a constable employed by the British Railways Board may stop, detain and search any vehicle before it leaves a goods area which is included in the premises of any successor of the British Railways Board and is used wholly or mainly for the purposes of a relevant undertaking.”.

(2) In subsection (2) of that section at the end there shall be inserted “; and “successor of the British Railways Board” and “relevant undertaking” have the same meaning as in the Railways Act 1993 (Consequential Modifications) Order 1999.”.