Part 5

Miscellaneous and general

Non-UK extradition: transit through the United Kingdom

Exercise of the extradition transit powers
189C
1
The extradition transit powers include power to use reasonable force when necessary.
2
An authorised officer may not, when exercising a relevant search power, require a person to remove any clothing other than an outer coat, jacket, headgear or gloves.
3
Any item seized from a person in the exercise of a relevant search power may be retained while the person is in transit through the United Kingdom.
Ss. 189A-189E and cross-heading inserted (1.5.2021) by Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12), ss. 168, 185(1) (with ss. 21, 33, 42, 58, 75, 93); S.I. 2021/532, art. 3