{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-northern-ireland-order-1995/article-5",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1995/2993",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-northern-ireland-order-1995",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Extension of powers to search persons' mouths",
  "text": "(1) In Article 34 of the 1989 Order (powers of search upon arrest) in paragraph (4), at the end,there shall be added the words “but they do authorise a search of a person's mouth”.\n(2) In Article 53 of the 1989 Order (interpretation) after the definition of “intimate sample” there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““intimate search” means a search which consists of the physical examination of a person's body orifices other than the mouth;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1995/2993/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:43:10.728991+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."
}