{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-evidence-amendment-act-1997/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-evidence-amendment-act-1997/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/17",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Evidence (Amendment) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-evidence-amendment-act-1997",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“the 1984 Act” means the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984;\n“appropriate consent” has the meaning given by section 65 of the 1984 Act;\n“non-intimate sample” has the meaning given by section 65 of the 1984 Act;\n“recordable offence” means any offence to which regulations under section 27 of the 1984 Act (fingerprinting) apply;\n“the relevant time” means, in relation to the exercise of any power to take a non-intimate sample from a person, the time when it is sought to take the sample.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1984 c. 60."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/17/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:27:42.113884+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."
}