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)
“(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)
“(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.”