Explanatory Notes

Counter-Terrorism Act 2008

2008 CHAPTER 28

26 November 2008

Commentary on Sections

Part 1 – Powers to Gather and Share Information

Power to take fingerprints and samples from person subject to control order

Section 13 – Power to take fingerprints and non-intimate samples: transitional provision

42.Section 13 makes transitional provision for the powers in sections 10, 11 and 12 and provides that the powers to take fingerprints and non-intimate samples from a person subject to a control order will have effect at the time the sections are commenced regardless of when the control order was made.