C3 Part XI Miscellaneous and Supplementary

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)

E1C2C4118 General interpretation. C1

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In this Act—

  • F1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  • F2F3British Transport Police Force” means the constables appointed under section 53 of the British Transport Commission Act 1949 (c. xxix);

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

  • documentF4means anything in which information of any description is recorded.;

  • F5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

  • parent or guardian” means—

    1. a

      in the case of a child or young person in the care of a local authority, that authority; F6 . . .

    2. b

      F6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  • 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.

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F7Subject to subsection (2A) a person is in police detention for the purposes of this Act if—

F8a

he has been taken to a police station after being arrested for an offence or after being arrested under section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000, 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.

F92A

Where a person is in another’s lawful custody by virtue of paragraph F10... 34(1) or 35(3) of Schedule 4 to the Police Reform Act 2002, he shall be treated as in police detention.