The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 2686 (C.79)

POLICE

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1991

Made

28th November 1991

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 121 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984(1), I hereby make the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1991.

2.  The following provisions of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 shall come into force on the day following the date of making of this Order, namely–

(a) in those police areas specified in the Schedule to this Order, section 60(1)(b);

(b) section 60(2).

Kenneth Baker

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

28th November 1991

Article 2

SCHEDULE POLICE AREAS IN WHICH SECTION 60(1)(b) COMES INTO FORCE ON 29th NOVEMBER 1991

Avon and Somerset

Bedfordshire

Cambridgeshire

Cheshire

City of London

Cleveland Cumbria

Derbyshire

Devon and Cornwall

Dorset

Durham

Dyfed-Powys

Essex

Gloucestershire

Greater Manchester

Gwent

Hampshire

Hertfordshire

Humberside

Kent

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Merseyside

Metropolitan Police District

Norfolk

Northamptonshire

Northumbria

North Wales

North Yorkshire

Nottinghamshire

South Wales

South Yorkshire

Staffordshire

Suffolk

Surrey

Sussex

Warwickshire

West Mercia

West Midlands

West Yorkshire

Wiltshire

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 29th November 1991 section 60(1)(b) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, in the police areas specified in the Schedule to the Order, and section 60(2). The effect is to require the Secretary of State to make an order requiring the tape-recording of interviews with suspects at police stations in those police areas in accordance with the code of practice issued by him (which, by virtue of S.I. 1988/1200, came into operation on 29th July 1988).

The entire Act is now in force with the exception of section 37(11) to (14) (and Schedule 13 to the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53) provides for the repeal of those subsections), and section 60(1)(b) in areas of England and Wales other than those mentioned in the Schedule to this Order.

(1)

1984 c. 60.