83 Provision for Northern Ireland corresponding to s 82
Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (2001 c 16) | Legislation

83  Provision for Northern Ireland corresponding to s 82

(1)     Article 64 of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (SI 1989/1341 (NI 12)) (destruction of fingerprints and samples) shall be amended as follows.

(2)     For paragraphs (1) and (2) (obligation to destroy fingerprints and samples of persons who are not prosecuted or who are cleared) there shall be substituted—

“(1A)     Where—

(a)     fingerprints or samples are taken from a person in connection with the investigation of an offence; and

(b)     paragraph (3) does not require them to be destroyed,

the fingerprints or samples may be retained after they have fulfilled the purposes for which they were taken but shall not be used by any person except for purposes related to the prevention or detection of crime, the investigation of an offence or the conduct of a prosecution.

(1B)     In paragraph (1A)—

(a)     the reference to using a fingerprint includes a reference to allowing any check to be made against it under Article 63A(1) and to disclosing it to any person;

(b)     the

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