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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Juxtaposed Controls) Order 2003 No. 2818
16.—(1) This article applies where a constable or an immigration officer is arrested in respect of an act performed in a Control Zone in France.
(2) If the competent French authorities determine that the act was performed by the officer whilst in the exercise of his functions he shall, on being handed over by those authorities to a constable, be treated as having been arrested by the constable.
(3) The officer shall be taken to a police station designated under section 35 of the 1984 Act.
(4) The officer shall be treated as being in police detention for all purposes of Part IV of the 1984 Act, and that Part shall have effect in relation to him as if the relevant time mentioned in section 41(2) were the time at which he arrives in the United Kingdom.
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