SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8 Minor and consequential amendments

Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (c.46)

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1

For section 18(3) of the 1995 Act (prints and samples) there shall be substituted the following subsection—

3

Subject to subsection (4) below, all record of any relevant physical data taken from or provided by a person under subsection (2) above, all samples taken under subsection (6) below and all information derived from such samples shall be destroyed as soon as possible following a decision not to institute criminal proceedings against the person or on the conclusion of such proceedings otherwise than with a conviction or an order under section 246(3) of this Act.

2

The amendment made by sub-paragraph (1) above shall be deemed to have had effect from 1 August 1997.