Section 164B Power to scan for child sexual abuse imagesF1

This section applies if there are reasonable grounds to suspect that a person to whom section 164 applies is carrying an electronic device storing child sexual abuse images.

If this section applies, an officer may—

In this section—

• “child sexual abuse image” means—

  1. (a)

     in relation to England and Wales and Northern Ireland, an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child or a prohibited image of a child;

  2. (b)

     in relation to Scotland, an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child;

• “electronic device” means any article on which information is capable of being stored in electronic form, and includes any component of such an article;

• “indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child” has—

  1. (a)

     in relation to England and Wales, the same meaning as in the Protection of Children Act 1978;

  2. (b)

     in relation to Scotland, the same meaning as in section 52 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982;

  3. (c)

     in relation to Northern Ireland, the same meaning as in the Protection of Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1047 (N.I. 17));

• “prohibited image of a child” has the same meaning as in Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.