Modification of section 30 of the Act (Arrest elsewhere than at police station)
9.—(1) Section 30 of the Act (arrest elsewhere than at police station)(1) is modified as follows.
(2) In subsections (1A), (2), (3), subsection (4)(a), and subsections (5), (6), (7), (7A), (10), (10A) and (11), after “police station”, wherever that expression occurs, insert “, office of Revenue and Customs or Home Office custody suite”.
(3) In subsection (2), sub-sections (4)(a) and (5)(b), and subsection (6), after “designated police station”, wherever that expression occurs, insert “, designated office of Revenue and Customs or designated Home Office custody suite”.
(4) In subsection (3), before “detention”, delete “police”.
(5) In its application by virtue of article 3 above the Act shall have effect as if the following subsection were inserted after subsection 30(6)—
“(6A) An arrested person may be transferred between Revenue and Customs detention and Home Office detention, and between Revenue and Customs detention and police detention”.
Section 18 of the Act was amended by section 111 of, and paragraph 43(1) and (5) of Part 3 of Schedule 7 to, the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c.15) and section 12 of, and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 1 to, the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c.44).