Part IV Police Powers
Powers of police to take body samples
59 Extension of powers to search persons’ mouths.
(1)
In section 65 of the M1Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (definitions for purposes of Part V: treatment of persons by police), after the definition of “intimate sample” there shall be inserted the following definition—
““intimate search” means a search which consists of the physical examination of a person’s body orifices other than the mouth;”.
(2)
In section 32 of that Act (powers of search upon arrest), in subsection (4), at the end, there shall be inserted “
but they do authorise a search of a person’s mouth
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