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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-54",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1989/1341",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-northern-ireland-order-1989",
  "path": "article/54",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Abolition of certain powers of constables to search persons",
  "text": "(1) . . . , there shall cease to have effect any statutory provision made before the date of the coming into operation of this Order in so far as it authorises—\n(a) any search by a constable of a person in police detention at a police station; or\n(b) an intimate search of a person by a constable;\nand any rule of common law which authorises a search such as is mentioned in sub‐paragraph (a) or (b) is abolished.\nPara. (2) rep. by 2000 c. 11",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2000 c. 11"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted in earlier affecting provision 2015 c. 9 (N.I.), Sch. 2 para. 6(3)(b)",
      "affecting": "nia/2022/4",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice (Committal Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/1341/article/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:15.355333+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."
}