SCHEDULE 10 Consequential Amendments

Non-intimate samples: speculative searches

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In section 63 of the M1Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (which regulates the taking of non-intimate body samples)—

(a)

after the subsection (8A) inserted by section 55 of this Act, there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(8B)

If a non-intimate sample is taken from a person at a police station, whether with or without the appropriate consent—

(a)

before the sample is taken, an officer shall inform him that it may be the subject of a speculative search; and

(b)

the fact that the person has been informed of this possibility shall be recorded as soon as practicable after the sample has been taken.”; and

(b)

in subsection (9), after the words “(8A)” there shall be inserted the words “ or (8B) ”.