C3 Part XI Miscellaneous and Supplementary
E1C2C4118 General interpretation. C1
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In this Act—
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F2F3“British 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;
“document” F4means anything in which information of any description is recorded.;
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“item subject to legal privilege” has the meaning assigned to it by section 10 above;
“parent or guardian” means—
“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—
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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.
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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.
Pt. XI incorporated (E.W.S.) (16.5.2008) by The London Gateway Port Harbour Empowerment Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1261), art. 52