The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Modifications to Codes C and D) (Certain Police Areas) (Amendment) Order 2004

Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 78

POLICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Modifications to Codes C and D) (Certain Police Areas) (Amendment) Order 2004

Made

14th January 2004

Laid before Parliament

16th January 2004

Coming into force

1st April 2004

In exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 67(7A) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984(1), the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Modifications to Codes C and D) (Certain Police Areas) (Amendment) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 1st April 2004.

2.  Article 3 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Modifications to Codes C and D) (Certain Police Areas) Order 2003(2), is amended as follows:

(a) in paragraph (n) delete “and”; and

(b) after paragraph (o), insert—

“(p) Cambridgeshire;

(q) Leicestershire;

(r) Northumbria; and

(s) West Midlands.”

Caroline Flint

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

14th January 2004

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 63B of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 gives police officers a power to undertake tests for the presence of specified Class A drugs in relation to certain persons in police detention. The power is in operation in a limited number of police areas and modifications to Codes C and D have been made in those police areas.

This Order extends, from 1st April 2004, the modified versions of Codes C and D to apply to the police areas of Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Northumbria and the West Midlands.

(1)

1984 c. 60; section 67(7A) was inserted by section 77 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c. 16).

(2)

S.I. 2003/704.