28.—(1) Section 50 of the Act(1), as applied by article 12, has effect as if for that section there were substituted—
(1) The Secretary of State shall keep written records showing on an annual basis—
(a)the number of persons kept in customs detention for more than 24 hours and subsequently released without charge;
(b)the number of applications for warrants of further detention and the results of the applications; and
(c)in relation to each warrant of further detention—
(i)the period of further detention authorised by it;
(ii)the period which the person named in it spent in customs detention on its authority; and
(iii)whether the person was charged or released without charge.
(2) The Secretary of State must publish information about the matters mentioned in subsection (1) above once in each calendar year and the published information must relate to the records of persons kept in customs detention in the preceding calendar year.”.
(2) The modification to section 50 of the Act, as applied by paragraph (1) above, shall have effect in relation to the period beginning with the day on which this Order comes into force and ending with 31 December 2013 as if it required records to be kept showing the information about the matters mentioned in subsection (1) for that period and, in relation to the duty to publish information in 2014, as if it required information to be published about persons kept in customs detention for that period.
Section 50 of the Act was amended by the Police Act 1996 (c.16), section 103, Schedule 7, paragraph 35.