# Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, Section 53: Abolition of certain powers of constables to search persons.


(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, there shall cease to have effect any Act (including a local Act) passed before this Act in so far as it authorises—
(a) any search by a constable of a person in police detention at a police station; or
(b) an intimate search of a person by a constable;
and any rule of common law which authorises a search such as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) above is abolished.
(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/section/53 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984/section-53
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