Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60)

SCHEDULES

Valid from 15/12/2011

[F1 SCHEDULE 2A U.K. Fingerprinting and samples: power to require attendance at police station

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2A inserted (prosp.) by Crime and Security Act 2010 (c. 17), ss. 6(2), 59

Part 3 U.K. Non-intimate samples

Valid from 13/05/2014

Persons charged etc U.K.

10 (1) A constable may require a person to attend a police station for the purpose of taking a non-intimate sample from him under section 63(3A). U.K.

(2) The power under sub-paragraph (1) above may not be exercised in a case falling within section 63(3A)(a) (sample not taken previously) after the end of the period of six months beginning with the day on which he was charged or informed that he would be reported.

(3) The power under sub-paragraph (1) above may not be exercised in a case falling within section 63(3A)(b) (sample taken on a previous occasion not suitable etc) after the end of the period of six months beginning with the day on which the appropriate officer was informed of the matters specified in section 63(3A)(b)(i) or (ii).

(4) In sub-paragraph (3) above “appropriate officer” means the officer investigating the offence for which the person was charged or informed that he would be reported.]