{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-fingerprinting-etc-device-approval-scotland-order-2005/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-fingerprinting-etc-device-approval-scotland-order-2005/note.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/36",
  "legislation_title": "The Electronic Fingerprinting etc. Device Approval (Scotland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-fingerprinting-etc-device-approval-scotland-order-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe Electronic Fingerprinting etc Device Approval (Scotland) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/1939) approved the device known as the Digital Biometrics Incorporation (DBI) Tenprinter 1133S, with palmprint option, for the purpose of creating such records as are mentioned in paragraph (d) of section 18(7A) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.\nThis Order approves the additional device known as the Smiths Heimann Biometric Device LS1 LITE U CE for the purpose of creating such records as are mentioned in paragraph (d) of section 18(7A) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (records of a person’s skin on an external part of the body).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/36/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:27:56.508389+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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