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Schedules

Schedule 7U.K.Minor and consequential amendments

Part 13 U.K.Redundant provisions etc

Staff custody officersU.K.

124(1)The Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S. I. 1989/1341 (N. I. 12)) is amended as follows.U.K.

(2)In Article 37 (custody officers at police stations)—

(a)for paragraph (3) substitute—

(3)No police officer may be appointed a custody officer unless the officer is of at least the rank of sergeant.,

(b)in paragraph (5) for “an individual” substitute “ an officer ”,

(c)in paragraph (7)—

(i)in sub-paragraph (a) omit “or a staff custody officer” and for “such a person” substitute “ such an officer ”, and

(ii)in sub-paragraph (b) for “such person” substitute “ such officer ”,

(d)in paragraph (8) for “a person” substitute “ an officer ”, and

(e)omit paragraph (11).

(3)In Article 40 (responsibilities in relation to persons detained)—

(a)in paragraph (6)(a) omit “(or, if the custody officer is a staff custody officer, any police officer or any member of the police support staff)”, and

(b)omit paragraph (7).