Courts Act 2003, Section 54A is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 03 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)This section applies where an order has been made under section 15A of the Juries Act 1974 (surrender of electronic communications devices by jurors) in respect of the members of a jury.
(2)A court security officer acting in the execution of the officer's duty must, if ordered to do so by a judge, search a member of the jury in order to determine whether the juror has failed to surrender an electronic communications device in accordance with the order.
(3)Subsection (2) does not authorise the officer to require a person to remove clothing other than a coat, jacket, headgear, gloves or footwear.
(4)If the search reveals a device which is required by the order to be surrendered—
(a)the officer must ask the juror to surrender the device, and
(b)if the juror refuses to do so, the officer may seize it.
(5)In this section, “electronic communications device” means a device that is designed or adapted for a use which consists of or includes the sending or receiving of signals that are transmitted by means of an electronic communications network (as defined in section 32 of the Communications Act 2003).]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 54A inserted (13.4.2015) by Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2), ss. 70(2), 95(1); S.I. 2015/778, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 55
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