{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-amendment-northern-ireland-order-2007/article-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-amendment-northern-ireland-order-2007/article-33.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2007/288",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Criminal Evidence (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-amendment-northern-ireland-order-2007",
  "path": "article/33",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Non-intimate samples",
  "text": "(1) Article 63 of PACE (non-intimate samples) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (3)(b) for “superintendent” substitute “ inspector ”.\n(3) After paragraph (5) insert—\n“(5A) An officer shall not give an authorisation under paragraph (3) for the taking from any person of a non-intimate sample consisting of a skin impression if—\n(a) a skin impression of the same part of the body has already been taken from that person in the course of the investigation of the offence; and\n(b) the impression previously taken is not one that has proved insufficient.”.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 33(4) repealed (12.1.2010) by Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26), ss. 112(2), 116(6)(b), Sch. 8 Pt. 13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2007/288/article/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:10.872174+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."
}