{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-public-order-act-1994/section-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-public-order-act-1994/section-55.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/33",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-public-order-act-1994",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Powers of police to take non-intimate body samples.",
  "text": "(1) Section 63 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (regulation of taking of non-intimate samples) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (3), there shall be inserted the following subsections—\n“(3A) A non-intimate sample may be taken from a person (whether or not he falls within subsection (3)(a) above) without the appropriate consent if—\n(a) he has been charged with a recordable offence or informed that he will be reported for such an offence; and\n(b) either he has not had a non-intimate sample taken from him in the course of the investigation of the offence by the police or he has had a non-intimate sample taken from him but either it was not suitable for the same means of analysis or, though so suitable, the sample proved insufficient.\n(3B) A non-intimate sample may be taken from a person without the appropriate consent if he has been convicted of a recordable offence.”.\n(3) In subsection (4), in paragraph (a), for the words “serious arrestable offence” there shall be substituted the words “ recordable offence ”.\n(4) After subsection (8), there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(8A) In a case where by virtue of subsection (3A) or (3B) a sample is taken from a person without the appropriate consent—\n(a) he shall be told the reason before the sample is taken; and\n(b) the reason shall be recorded as soon as practicable after the sample is taken.”.\n(5) In subsection (9), after the words “subsection (8)” there shall be inserted the words “ or (8A) ”.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 55(6) repealed (19.3.1997) by 1997 c. 17, ss. 1(1), 6(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/section/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:43.965785+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."
}