E1SCHEDULE 10 Consequential Amendments

Annotations:
Extent Information
E1

The provisions of Sch. 10 are co-extensive with the enactments they affect, see s. 172(16)

Intimate samples: speculative searches

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In section 62 of the M1Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (which regulates the taking of intimate body samples)—

a

after subsection (7) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

7A

If an intimate sample is taken from a person at a police station—

a

before the sample is taken, an officer shall inform him that it 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 practicable after the sample has been taken.

b

in subsection (8), after the words “subsection (7)” there shall be inserted the words “ or (7A) ”.