{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-155",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-155.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2016/18",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "section/155",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "155",
  "heading": "Intimate searches",
  "text": "Article 56 of PACE (intimate searches) applies in relation to a person detained in a place of safety under this Part as if—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(a) the reference to a person who has been arrested and is in police detention were a reference to a person detained in a place of safety under this Part;\n(b) in paragraph (1)(a)(ii) the reference to police detention or the custody of a court were a reference to detention under this Part;\n(c) paragraphs (1)(b), (3A) to (4), (9), (10A), (12)(a)(iii) and (13A) were omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/18/section/155",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:54.781348+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."
}