[20A Arrested persons: testing for certain Class A drugs]
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 46) | Legislation

[Testing for Class A drugs]

[20A  Arrested persons: testing for certain Class A drugs]

[(1)     Subject to subsection (2) below, where subsection (3) below applies an appropriate officer may—

(a)     require a person who has been arrested and is in custody in a police station to provide him with a sample of urine; or

(b)     take from the inside of the mouth of such a person, by means of swabbing, a sample of saliva or other material,

which the officer may subject to analysis intended to reveal whether there is any relevant Class A drug in the person's body.

(2)     The power conferred by subsection (1) above shall not be exercised where the person has previously been required to provide or had taken from him a sample under that subsection in the same period in custody.

(3)     This subsection applies where—

(a)     the person is of 16 years of age or more;

(b)     the period in custody in the police station has not exceeded 6 hours;

(c)     the police station is situated in an area prescribed by order made by statutory

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