The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Application to immigration officers and designated customs officials in England and Wales) Order 2013

Modification of section 55 of the Act (intimate searches)

30.—(1) Section 55 of the Act(1), as applied by article 12, has effect as if for subsection (14) there were substituted—

“(14) The Secretary of State must keep written records showing on an annual basis the information about searches carried out under this section by designated customs officials that is mentioned in subsection (15) below.

(14A) The Secretary of State must publish information about the records referred to in subsection (14) above once in each calendar year and the published information must relate to the records of searches carried out by designated customs officials under this section in the preceding calendar year.”.

(2) The modification to section 55 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 searches carried out by designated customs officials mentioned in subsection (15) for that period and, in relation to the duty to publish information in 2014, as if it required information to be published about searches carried out in that period.

(1)

Section 55 of the Act was amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c.33), section 170(1), Schedule 15, paragraphs 97 and 99; the Police Act 1996 (c.16), section 103, Schedule 7, paragraph 36; the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c.16), section 79; the Drugs Act 2005 (c.17), section 3; and the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c.26), section 112(1) and (2), Schedule 7, Part 13, paragraph 123(1), (5) and Schedule 8, Part 13. There are other amendments not relevant to this Order.