Criminal Evidence (Amendment) Act 1997

1 Persons imprisoned or detained by virtue of pre-existing conviction for sexual offence etc. E+W

(1) This section has effect for removing, in relation to persons to whom this section applies, the restriction on the operation of section 63(3B) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (power to take non-intimate samples without the M1 appropriate consent from persons convicted of recordable offences)—

(a) which is imposed by the subsection (10) inserted in section 63 by section 55(6) of the M2 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, and

(b) by virtue of which section 63(3B) does not apply to persons convicted before 10th April 1995.

(2) Accordingly, in section 63 of the 1984 Act, for the subsection (10) referred to in subsection (1) above there shall be substituted—

“(9A) Subsection (3B) above shall not apply to any person convicted before 10th April 1995 unless he is a person to whom section 1 of the Criminal Evidence (Amendment) Act 1997 applies (persons imprisoned or detained by virtue of pre-existing conviction for sexual offence etc.).”

(3) This section applies to a person who was convicted of a recordable offence before 10th April 1995 if—

(a) that offence was one of the offences listed in Schedule 1 to this Act (which lists certain sexual, violent and other offences), and

(b) at the relevant time he is serving a sentence of imprisonment in respect of that offence.

(4) This section also applies to a person who was convicted of a recordable offence before 10th April 1995 if—

(a) that offence was one of the offences listed in Schedule 1 to this Act, and

(b) at the relevant time he is detained under Part III of the M3 Mental Health Act 1983 in pursuance of—

(i) a hospital order or interim hospital order made following that conviction, or

(ii) a transfer direction given at a time when he was serving a sentence of imprisonment in respect of that offence.

Expressions used in this subsection and in the M4 Mental Health Act 1983 have the same meaning as in that Act.

(5) Where a person convicted of a recordable offence before 10th April 1995 was, following his conviction for that and any other offence or offences, sentenced to two or more terms of imprisonment (whether taking effect consecutively or concurrently), he shall be treated for the purposes of this section as serving a sentence of imprisonment in respect of that offence at any time when serving any of those terms.

(6) For the purposes of this section, references to a person serving a sentence of imprisonment include references—

(a) to his being detained in any institution to which the M5 Prison Act 1952 applies in pursuance of any other sentence or order for detention imposed by a court in criminal proceedings, or

(b) to his being detained (otherwise than in any such institution) in pursuance of directions of the Secretary of State under section 53 of the M6 Children and Young Persons Act 1933;

and any reference to a term of imprisonment shall be construed accordingly.

Marginal Citations

M1 1984 c. 60.

M2 1994 c. 33.

M3 1983 c. 20.

M4 1983 c. 20.

M5 1952 c. 52.

M6 1933 c. 12.