Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60)

PART XI Miscellaneous and Supplementary

118 General interpretation

(1) In this Act—

• " arrestable offence" has the meaning assigned to it by section 24 above;

• " designated police station " has the meaning assigned to it by section 35 above;

• " document" has the same meaning as in Part I of the [1968 c. 64.] Civil Evidence Act 1968 ;

• " intimate search " means a search which consists of the physical examination of a person's body orifices ;

• " item subject to legal privilege " has the meaning assigned to it by section 10 above ;

• " parent or guardian " means—

  (a)

  in the case of a child or young person in the care of a local authority, that authority; and

  (b)

  in the case of a child or young person in the care of a voluntary organisation in which parental rights and duties with respect to him are vested by virtue of a resolution under section 64(1) of the [1980 c. 5.] Child Care Act 1980, that organisation ;

• " premises " has the meaning assigned to it by section 23 above;

• " recordable offence " means any offence to which regulations under section 27 above apply ;

• " vessel" includes any ship, boat, raft or other apparatus constructed or adapted for floating on water.

(2) A person is in police detention for the purposes of this Act if—

(a) he has been taken to a police station after being arrested for an offence ; or

(b) he is arrested at a police station after attending voluntarily at the station or accompanying a constable to it,

and is detained there or is detained elsewhere in the charge of a constable, except that a person who is at a court after being charged is not in police detention for those purposes.