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(1)Subject to subsection (2), nothing in section 14(1) or 16(2) applies to anything done for purposes related to—
(a)the prevention or detection of crime, or
(b)the conduct of a prosecution.
(2)Subsection (1) does not except from section 14(1) or 16(2) the carrying-out of a post-mortem examination for purposes of functions of a coroner.
(3)The reference in subsection (2) to the carrying-out of a post-mortem examination does not include the removal of relevant material from the body of a deceased person, or from a part of the body of a deceased person, at the first place where the body or part is situated to be attended by a constable.
(4)For the purposes of subsection (1)(a), detecting crime shall be taken to include—
(a)establishing by whom, for what purpose, by what means and generally in what circumstances any crime was committed, and
(b)the apprehension of the person by whom any crime was committed;
and the reference in subsection (1)(a) to the detection of crime includes any detection outside the United Kingdom of any crime or suspected crime.
(5)In subsection (1)(b), the reference to a prosecution includes a prosecution brought in respect of any crime in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom.
(6)In this section, references to crime include a reference to any conduct which—
(a)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),
(b)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, or
(c)constitutes one or more offences of a kind triable by court-martial under the Army Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 18), the Air Force Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 19) or the Naval Discipline Act 1957 (c. 53).
Commencement Information
I1S. 39 in force at 1.4.2005 for specified purposes by S.I. 2005/919, art. 3, Sch. (with art. 2)
I2S. 39 in force at 20.10.2005 for specified purposes by S.I. 2005/2792, art. 2(2)(j)
(1)This section applies—
(a)to the use of—
(i)the body of a deceased person, or
(ii)relevant material which has come from a human body,
for the purpose of public display at a place of public religious worship or at a place associated with such a place, and
(b)to the storage of—
(i)the body of a deceased person, or
(ii)relevant material which has come from a human body,
for use for the purpose mentioned in paragraph (a).
(2)An activity to which this section applies is excluded from sections 14(1) and 16(2) if there is a connection between—
(a)the body or material to which the activity relates, and
(b)the religious worship which takes place at the place of public religious worship concerned.
(3)For the purposes of this section, a place is associated with a place of public religious worship if it is used for purposes associated with the religious worship which takes place there.
Commencement Information
I3S. 40 in force at 1.4.2005 for specified purposes by S.I. 2005/919, art. 3, Sch. (with art. 2)
I4S. 40 in force at 20.10.2005 for specified purposes by S.I. 2005/2792, art. 2(2)(j)
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