Section 59: Extension of powers to search persons’ mouths.

Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 · 1994 c. 33View on legislation.gov.uk

Part IV: Police Powers

In section 65 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (definitions for purposes of Part V: treatment of persons by police), after the definition of “intimate sample” there shall be inserted the following definition—

“intimate search” means a search which consists of the physical examination of a person’s body orifices other than the mouth;

In section 32 of that Act (powers of search upon arrest), in subsection (4), at the end, there shall be inserted .“ but they do authorise a search of a person’s mouth ”

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