In this Schedule—

• “constable” has the meaning given by section 99(1) of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 201235;

• “designated customs official” means a person who is designated as a general customs official under section 3(1) of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 200936 or as a customs revenue official under section 11(1) of that Act;

• “Home Office custody suite” means premises wholly or partly used for the detention of persons by designated customs officials;

• “immigration offence” means—

  1. a

     an offence involving conduct which relates to the entitlement of one or more persons who are not nationals of the United Kingdom to enter, transit across, or be in, the United Kingdom (including conduct which relates to conditions or other controls on any such entitlement); or

  2. b

     (insofar as it is not an offence within paragraph (a)) an offence under the Immigration Acts or in relation to which a power of arrest is conferred on an immigration officer by the Immigration Acts;

• “immigration officer” means a person appointed as an immigration officer under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 197137;

• “nationality offence” means an offence involving conduct which is undertaken for the purposes of, or otherwise in relation to, an enactment in—

  1. a

     the British Nationality Act 198138;

  2. b

     the Hong Kong Act 198539;

  3. c

     the Hong Kong (War Wives and Widows) Act 199640;

  4. d

     the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 199741;

  5. e

     the British Overseas Territories Act 200242;

  6. f

     an instrument made under any of those Acts;

• “office of Revenue and Customs” means premises wholly or partly occupied by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.

In sub-paragraph (1), “the Immigration Acts” has the meaning given by section 61 of the UK Borders Act 200743.