The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Application to Revenue and Customs) Order 2015

Modification of section 50 of the Act (Records of detention)

13.—(1) Section 50 of the Act (records of detention)(1) is modified as follows.

(2) For subsection (1) substitute—

“(1) The Commissioners shall keep written records showing on an annual basis—

(a) the number of persons kept in Revenue and Customs detention for more than 24 hours and subsequently released without charge;

(b) the number of applications for warrants of further detention and the results of the applications; and

(c) in relation to each warrant of further detention—

(i) the period of further detention authorised by it;

(ii) the period which the person named in it spent in Revenue and Customs detention on its authority; and

(iii) whether he was charged or released without charge.”.

(3) For subsection (2) substitute—

“(2) Every annual report made by the Commissioners shall contain information about the matters mentioned in subsection (1) above in respect of the period to which the report relates.”.

(1)

Section 50 of the Act was amended by section 103 of, and paragraph 35 of Schedule 7 to, the Police Act 1996 (c.16).