{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984/schedule-2A/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984/schedule-2A/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/60",
  "legislation_title": "Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984",
  "path": "schedule/2A/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A power conferred by this Schedule to require a person to attend a police station for the purposes of taking fingerprints , a sample or a photograph under any provision of this Act may be exercised only in a case where the fingerprints , sample or photograph may be taken from the person under that provision (and, in particular, if any necessary authorisation for taking the fingerprints , sample or photograph under that provision has been obtained).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2A inserted (prosp.) by Crime and Security Act 2010 (c. 17), ss. 6(2), 59"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2A para. 15 substituted (28.6.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 52(7)(a), 208(5)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2A para. 15 substituted (28.6.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 52(7)(b), 208(5)(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/schedule/2A/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:58.179601+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."
}