The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) (Revocation) Order 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2463

POLICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) (Revocation) Order 2003

Made

25th September 2003

Laid before Parliament

3rd October 2003

Coming into force

1st November 2003

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 60A(1)(b) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984(1), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) (Revocation) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st November 2003.

Revocations

2.  The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) Order 2002(2) and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) (No. 2) Order 2002(3) are hereby revoked.

Hazel Blears

Minister of State

Home Office

25th September 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes with effect from 1st November 2003 the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) Order 2002 and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) (No. 2) Order 2002 with the result that visual recording of interviews in the areas specified in those Orders is no longer mandatory.

The areas specified in the Orders were: Basingstoke, Portsmouth, Southampton, Chatham, Gravesend, Tonbridge, Bromley, Colindale, Edmonton, Redditch, Telford, Worcester, Harlow, Colchester and Southend.

Code F, the Code of Practice on Visual Recording with Sound of Interviews with Suspects, remains in force. Police officers who choose to visually record with sound interviews of suspects will still be required to have regard to the terms of Code F.

(1)

1984 c. 60; section 60A was inserted by section 76(1) of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c. 16).

(2)

S.I. 2002/1069.

(3)

S.I. 2002/2527.