(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order adds various offences to the list of “qualifying offences” in section 65A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. Under Part 5 of that Act, designation of an offence as a “qualifying offence” has implications for the circumstances in which a constable can require a person convicted of the offence to attend at a police station for the purpose of taking his fingerprints or a non-intimate sample, and has implications for the period for which such a person’s fingerprints or sample can be retained.