Part 3 Police and Criminal Evidence and the Terrorism Act

Fingerprints and samples

84 Amendment of Terrorism Act 2000 equivalent to s. 82

1

Paragraph 14 of Schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000 (c. 11) (use of fingerprints and samples) shall be amended as follows.

2

For sub-paragraph (2) (restriction on use for the purposes of a terrorist investigation) there shall be substituted—

2

The fingerprints and samples may be retained but shall not be used by any person except for the purposes of a terrorist investigation or for purposes related to the prevention or detection of crime, the investigation of an offence or the conduct of a prosecution.

3

In sub-paragraph (3) (exclusion of checks against the fingerprints or samples under section 63A or its Northern Ireland equivalent except for the purposes of a terrorism investigation), after “investigation” there shall be inserted “ or for purposes related to the prevention or detection of crime, the investigation of an offence or the conduct of a prosecution. ”

4

After sub-paragraph (4) there shall be inserted—

4A

In this paragraph—

a

a reference to crime includes a reference to any conduct which—

i

constitutes one or more criminal offences (whether under the law of a part of the United Kingdom or of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom); or

ii

is, or corresponds to, any conduct which, if it all took place in any one part of the United Kingdom, would constitute one or more criminal offences;

and

b

the references to an investigation and to a prosecution include references, respectively, to any investigation outside the United Kingdom of any crime or suspected crime and to a prosecution brought in respect of any crime in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom.