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After section 63S of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (for which see section 15) insert—
(1)Any material to which section 63D, 63R or 63S applies must not be used other than—
(a)in the interests of national security,
(b)for the purposes of a terrorist investigation,
(c)for purposes related to the prevention or detection of crime, the investigation of an offence or the conduct of a prosecution, or
(d)for purposes related to the identification of a deceased person or of the person to whom the material relates.
(2)Material which is required by section 63D, 63R or 63S to be destroyed must not at any time after it is required to be destroyed be used—
(a)in evidence against the person to whom the material relates, or
(b)for the purposes of the investigation of any offence.
(3)In this section—
(a)the reference to using material includes a reference to allowing any check to be made against it and to disclosing it to any person,
(b)the reference to crime includes a reference to any conduct which—
(i)constitutes one or more criminal offences (whether under the law of England and Wales or of any country or territory outside England and Wales), or
(ii)is, or corresponds to, any conduct which, if it all took place in England and Wales, would constitute one or more criminal offences, and
(c)the references to an investigation and to a prosecution include references, respectively, to any investigation outside England and Wales of any crime or suspected crime and to a prosecution brought in respect of any crime in a country or territory outside England and Wales.”
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I1S. 16 in force at 31.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/1814, art. 2(d) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2013/1813)
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