Paragraph 6

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 2 para. 17(5)(a) words substituted by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Armed Forces) 2011 art. 2(3)
Sch. 2 para. 17(5)(a) words substituted by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Armed Forces) 2012 art. 2(3)
Sch. 2 para. 5A inserted by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Armed Forces) 2013 art. 2(5)(a)
Sch. 2 para. 17(5)(6) substituted for Sch. 2 para. 17(5) by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Armed Forces) 2013 art. 2(5)(b)

(1)

Where immediately before commencement a person was within section 54(1)(a) or (b) of the 1984 Act—

(a)

he shall be treated as a person within article 4(1)(a) or (b), as appropriate, and

(b)

anything done with respect to him under a provision of section 54 of the 1984 Act shall be treated as if done under the equivalent provision of article 4.

(2)

Article 4 shall apply to anything seized under section 54 of the 1984 Act if immediately before commencement it is being retained under that section.