Extent Information
E1The provisions of Sch. 10 are co-extensive with the enactments they affect, see s. 172(16)
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Act substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 1(2); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)
56U.K.In section 61 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (which regulates the taking of fingerprints)—
(a)after subsection (7) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(7A)If a person’s fingerprints are taken at a police station, whether with or without the appropriate consent—
(a)before the fingerprints are taken, an officer shall inform him that they may be the subject of a speculative search; and
(b)the fact that the person has been informed of this possibility shall be recorded as soon as is practicable after the fingerprints have been taken.”; and
(b)in subsection (8), after the word “them” there shall be inserted the words “ and, in the case falling within subsection (7A) above, the fact referred to in paragraph (b) of that subsection ”.