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Version date: 13 August 2020 - onwards

18BA. Retention of further fingerprints

(1) This section applies where section 18 material is or includes a person's fingerprints ("the original fingerprints").

(2) An appropriate officer may make a determination under this section in respect of any further fingerprints taken from the same person ("the further fingerprints") if conditions 1 and 2 are met.

(3) Condition 1 is met if the further fingerprints -

(a) are section 18 material, or

(b) are taken under -

(i) Part 5 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984,

(ii) Article 61 of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I. 12)),

(iii) paragraph 10 of Schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000,

(iv) paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011, or

(v) paragraph 34 of Schedule 3 to the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019.

(4) Condition 2 is met if both the original fingerprints and the further fingerprints -