Explanatory note

This Order requires interviews of persons detained under Schedule 7 (Port and Border Controls) or section 41 (arrest without warrant of a person reasonably suspected of being a terrorist) of the Terrorism Act 2000 which are conducted by a police constable at a police station in Northern Ireland to be video recorded, and that the video recording should be with sound. “Police station” includes any place which the Secretary of State has designated under paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000 as a place where a person may be detained under section 41 of that Act. The Order also requires the interviews and video recording to be conducted in accordance with a code of practice made for the purpose by the Secretary of State under paragraphs 3(4)(a) and 4(4) of Schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000.