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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-security-act-2010-commencement-no3-order-2011/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/414",
  "legislation_title": "The Crime and Security Act 2010 (Commencement No.3) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-security-act-2010-commencement-no3-order-2011",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force on 7th March 2011 section 1 of the Crime and Security Act 2010. Section 1 amends section 3 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c.60). The amendment reduces the amount of information that must be recorded following a stop and search encounter.\nOn the same date, this Order brings into force sections 2 to 7 of the Act. These provisions amend Part 5 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (questioning and treatment of persons by police).\nSection 2 confers enhanced powers to take fingerprints and DNA samples. Section 3 creates similar powers in relation to qualifying offences committed outside England and Wales. Section 4 specifies the information that must be given on the taking of the material. Section 5 enables the police to use these fingerprints or samples to conduct speculative searches. Section 6 (which is commenced in part only) confers a power to require attendance at a police station for the purpose of taking fingerprints or samples. Section 7 sets out which offences fall within the definition of “qualifying offence.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/414/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:16:28.781734+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."
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