http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/2/schedule/13/paragraph/1Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015An Act to make provision about how offenders are dealt with before and after conviction; to create offences involving ill-treatment or wilful neglect by a person providing health care or social care; to create an offence of the corrupt or other improper exercise of police powers and privileges; to make provision about offences committed by disqualified drivers; to create an offence of disclosing private sexual photographs or films with intent to cause distress; to amend the offence of meeting a child following sexual grooming; to amend the offence of possession of extreme pornographic images; to make provision about the proceedings and powers of courts and tribunals; to make provision about judicial review; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-10-07Expert Participation2024-09-01 SCHEDULESSCHEDULE 13Juries at inquests<Emphasis>Jurors and electronic communications devices</Emphasis>1After section 9 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 insert—Surrender of electronic communications devices by jurors9A1A senior coroner holding an inquest with a jury may order the members of the jury to surrender any electronic communications devices for a period.2An order may be made only if the senior coroner considers that—athe order is necessary or expedient in the interests of justice, andbthe terms of the order are a proportionate means of safeguarding those interests.3An order may only specify a period during which the members of the jury are—ain the building in which the inquest is being heard,bin other accommodation provided at the senior coroner's request,cvisiting a place in accordance with arrangements made for the purposes of the inquest, ordtravelling to or from a place mentioned in paragraph (b) or (c).4An order may be made subject to exceptions.5It is a contempt of court for a member of a jury to fail to surrender an electronic communications device in accordance with an order under this section.6Proceedings for a contempt of court under this section may only be instituted on the motion of a senior coroner having jurisdiction to deal with it.7In this section, “electronic communications device” means a device that is designed or adapted for a use which consists of or includes the sending or receiving of signals that are transmitted by means of an electronic communications network (as defined in section 32 of the Communications Act 2003).Surrender of electronic communications devices: powers of search <Abbreviation Expansion="Et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc</Abbreviation>9B1This section applies where an order has been made under section 9A in respect of the members of a jury.2A coroners' officer must, if ordered to do so by a senior coroner, search a member of the jury in order to determine whether the juror has failed to surrender an electronic communications device in accordance with the order.3Subsection (2) does not authorise the officer to require a person to remove clothing other than a coat, jacket, headgear, gloves or footwear.4If the search reveals a device which is required by the order to be surrendered—athe officer must ask the juror to surrender the device, andbif the juror refuses to do so, the officer may seize it.5Subject to subsection (6), a coroners' officer may retain an article which was surrendered or seized under subsection (4) until the end of the period specified in the order.6If a coroners' officer reasonably believes that the device may be evidence of, or in relation to, an offence, the officer may retain it until the later of—athe end of the period specified in the order, andbthe end of such period as will enable the officer to draw it to the attention of a constable.7A coroners' officer may not retain a device under subsection (6)(b) for a period of more than 24 hours from the time when it was surrendered or seized.8The Lord Chancellor may by regulations make provision as to—athe provision of written information about coroners' officers' powers of retention to persons by whom devices have been surrendered, or from whom devices have been seized, under this section,bthe keeping of records about devices which have been surrendered or seized under this section,cthe period for which unclaimed devices have to be kept, anddthe disposal of unclaimed devices at the end of that period.9In this section—electronic communications device” has the same meaning as in section 9A;unclaimed device” means a device retained under this section which has not been returned and whose return has not been requested by a person entitled to it.Sch. 13 para. 1 in force at 13.4.2015 by S.I. 2015/778, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 79
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