# Criminal Evidence (Amendment) Act 1997, Section 5: Interpretation.


In this Act—
“the 1984 Act” means the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984;
“appropriate consent” has the meaning given by section 65 of the 1984 Act;
“non-intimate sample” has the meaning given by section 65 of the 1984 Act;
“recordable offence” means any offence to which regulations under section 27 of the 1984 Act (fingerprinting) apply;
“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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/17/section/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-evidence-amendment-act-1997/section-5
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