Legislation – Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014
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PART 11Policing etc
Personal samples and DNA profiles
144Power to take further fingerprints or non-intimate samples
(1)
In section 61 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (fingerprinting)—
(a)
“but
(i)
subsection (3A)(a) or (b) above applies, or
(ii)
subsection (5C) below applies.”;
(b)
“(5C)
This subsection applies where—
(a)
the investigation was discontinued but subsequently resumed, and
(b)
before the resumption of the investigation the fingerprints were destroyed pursuant to section 63D(3) below.”
(2)
In section 63 of that Act (non-intimate samples)—
(a)
“(iii)
subsection (3AA) below applies.”;
(b)
“insufficient, or
(iii)
subsection (3AA) below applies; or”;
(c)
“(3AA)
This subsection applies where the investigation was discontinued but subsequently resumed, and before the resumption of the investigation—
(a)
any DNA profile derived from the sample was destroyed pursuant to section 63D(3) below, and
(b)
the sample itself was destroyed pursuant to section 63R(4), (5) or (12) below.”