Part VIIPower To Arrest, Search and Fingerprint
Fingerprinting
142Attendance for fingerprinting
(1)
The Secretary of State may, by notice in writing, require a person to whom section 141 applies to attend at a specified place for fingerprinting.
(2)
The notice—
(a)
must give the person concerned a period of at least seven days within which to attend, beginning not earlier than seven days after the date of the notice; and
(b)
may require him to attend at a specified time of day or during specified hours.
(3)
A constable or immigration officer may arrest without warrant a person who has failed to comply with a requirement imposed on him under this section (unless the requirement has ceased to have effect).
(4)
Before a person arrested under subsection (3) is released—
(a)
he may be removed to a place where his fingerprints may conveniently be taken; and
(b)
his fingerprints may be taken (whether or not he is so removed).
(5)
A requirement imposed under subsection (1) ceases to have effect at the end of the relevant period (as defined by section 141).