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Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 2463

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) (Revocation) Order 2003

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2003 No. 2463


POLICE, ENGLAND AND WALES


The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) (Revocation) Order 2003


 Made25th September 2003 
 Laid before Parliament3rd October 2003 
 Coming into force1st November 2003 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 60A(1)(b) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984[1], hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
    1.This Order may be cited as the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) (Revocation) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st November 2003.

Revocations
    2.The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) Order 2002[2] and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) (No. 2) Order 2002[3] are hereby revoked.


Hazel Blears
Minister of State

Home Office
25th September 2003


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order revokes with effect from 1st November 2003 the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) Order 2002 and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Visual Recording of Interviews) (Certain Police Areas) (No. 2) Order 2002 with the result that visual recording of interviews in the areas specified in those Orders is no longer mandatory.

The areas specified in the Orders were: Basingstoke, Portsmouth, Southampton, Chatham, Gravesend, Tonbridge, Bromley, Colindale, Edmonton, Redditch, Telford, Worcester, Harlow, Colchester and Southend.

Code F, the Code of Practice on Visual Recording with Sound of Interviews with Suspects, remains in force. Police officers who choose to visually record with sound interviews of suspects will still be required to have regard to the terms of Code F.

Notes:

[1] 1984 c.60; section 60A was inserted by section 76(1) of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c.16).back

[2] S.I. 2002/1069.back

[3] S.I. 2002/2527.back


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