Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984

[F1Part 4E+WGeneral and supplementary]

Textual Amendments

F1Sch. 2A inserted (E.W.) (7.3.2011 except for the insertion of Sch. 2A paras. 4, 12) by Crime and Security Act 2010 (c. 17), ss. 6(2), 59(1); S.I. 2011/414, art. 2(d)

Prospective

[F2Requirement to have power to take fingerprints [, sample or photograph]E+W

Textual Amendments

F2Sch. 2A inserted (prosp.) by Crime and Security Act 2010 (c. 17), ss. 6(2), 59

15E+WA power conferred by this Schedule to require a person to attend a police station for the purposes of taking fingerprints [F3, a sample or a photograph] under any provision of this Act may be exercised only in a case where the fingerprints [F4, sample or photograph] may be taken from the person under that provision (and, in particular, if any necessary authorisation for taking the fingerprints [F4, sample or photograph] under that provision has been obtained).

Prospective

Date and time of attendanceE+W

16[F5(1)A requirement under this Schedule—E+W

(a)must direct the person to attend the police station on a specified date, and

(b)may either direct the person to attend the police station at a specified time on that date or direct the person to attend the police station between specified times on that date.]

(2)In specifying a [F6date, time or times] for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above, the constable shall consider whether the fingerprints [F7, sample or photograph] could reasonably be taken at a time when the person is for any other reason required to attend the police station.

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F9(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(5)If the constable giving a requirement under this Schedule and the person to whom it is given so agree, it may be varied so as to specify [F10any date, time at which or times between which] the person must attend; but a variation shall not have effect unless confirmed by the constable in writing.

Prospective

EnforcementE+W

17E+WA constable may arrest without warrant a person who has failed to comply with a requirement under this Schedule.]