PART VIQUESTIONING AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS BY POLICE

Abolition of certain powers of constables to search persons54

1

F1. . . , there shall cease to have effect any statutory provision made before the date of the coming into operation of this Order in so far as it authorises—

a

any search by a constable of a person in police detention at a police station; or

b

an intimate search of a person by a constable;

and any rule of common law which authorises a search such as is mentioned in sub‐paragraph (a) or (b) is abolished.

Para. (2) rep. by 2000 c. 11