{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/counter-terrorism-act-2008/section-18C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/counter-terrorism-act-2008/section-18C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/28",
  "legislation_title": "Counter-Terrorism Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/counter-terrorism-act-2008",
  "path": "section/18C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18C",
  "heading": "Destruction of copies",
  "text": "(1) If fingerprints are required by section 18 to be destroyed, any copies of the fingerprints held by the law enforcement authority concerned must also be destroyed.\n(2) If a DNA profile is required by that section to be destroyed, no copy may be retained by the law enforcement authority concerned except in a form which does not include information which identifies the person to whom the DNA profile relates.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 18-18E substituted for s. 18 (31.10.2013) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 1 para. 4 (with s. 97); S.I. 2013/1814, art. 2(k)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/28/section/18C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:40.867015+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}