Section 53 Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984

Section 53 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 is about Abolition of certain powers of constables to search persons. It provides as follows:

(1)Subject to subsection (2) below, there shall cease to have effect any Act (including a local Act) passed before this Act in so far as it authorises—

(a)any search by a constable of a person in police detention at a police station; or

(b)an intimate search of a person by a constable;

and any rule of common law which authorises a search such as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) above is abolished.

(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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