Statutory Instruments
2008 No. 2638
Police, England And Wales
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Revisions to Code A) Order 2008
Made
6th October 2008
Laid before Parliament
6th October 2008
Coming into force
27th October 2008
The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 67(5) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984( 1 ).
The Secretary of State has consulted in accordance with section 67(4) of that Act.
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1. This Order may be cited as the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Revisions to Code A) Order 2008 and shall come into force on 27 October 2008.
2. In this Order “PACE Code A” means the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Code of Practice for the exercise by: police officers of statutory powers of stop and search; police officers and police staff of requirements to record public encounters.
Revision of PACE Code A
3. —(1) The revision of PACE Code A which was laid before Parliament on 6 October 2008 and which relates to paragraph 4 of that Code (recording requirements including recording of encounters not governed by statutory powers) shall come into operation on 27 October 2008
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the reference to paragraph 4 of PACE Code A includes Annex E (replacement of the need to make or provide a record of the encounter with the ability to provide a receipt and to record only the person’s self-defined ethnicity) which is inserted for the purposes of that paragraph.
Vernon Coaker
Minister of State
Home Office
6th October 2008
1984 c.60 ; section 67(4) and (5) were substituted by section 11(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c.44) .