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Section 43 The terrorism provisions and police custody.

Northern Ireland

(1)

In this Part of this Act “the terrorism provisions” means section 14 of the M1Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 and any provision of Schedule 2 or 5 to that Act conferring a power of arrest or detention.

(2)

A person is held in police custody for the purposes of this Part of this Act if he is detained at a police station or is detained elsewhere in the charge of a constable except that a person who is at a court after being charged with an offence is not held in police custody for the purposes of section 44 below.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1

1989 c. 4.

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act repealed (25.8.1996) by 1996 c. 22, ss. 59, 62(1), 63(3)(7), Sch. 7 Pt. I