Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/9/schedule/1
Timestamp: 2018-01-18 06:32:10
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Matched Legal Cases: ['art 1', 'art 2', 'art. 2', 'art 3', 'art. 2', 'art 3', 'art 2', 'art. 2', 'art 4', 'art. 2', 'art 5', 'art. 2', 'art 6', 'art 7', 'art. 2']

Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, SCHEDULE 1 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 18 January 2018. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
Sch. 1 para. 7(1) words substituted by 2013 c. 7 (N.I.) Sch. 3 para. 7(2)
Sch. 1 para. 7(2) words substituted for Sch. 1 para. 7(2)(a)(b) by 2013 c. 7 (N.I.) Sch. 3 para. 7(3)
SCHEDULE 1E+W+S+N.I.Amendments of regimes other than PACE
Part 1 E+W+S+N.I.Material subject to the Terrorism Act 2000
Part 2 E+W+N.I.Material subject to the International Criminal Court Act 2001
I5Sch. 1 para. 2 in force at 31.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/1814, art. 2(k) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2013/1813 (as amended (30.10.2016) by S.I. 2016/682, arts. 1, 3, 4))
Part 3 E+W+S+N.I.Material subject to section 18 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008
3The Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 is amended as follows.E+W+S+N.I.
I6Sch. 1 para. 3 in force at 31.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/1814, art. 2(k) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2013/1813 (as amended (30.10.2016) by S.I. 2016/682, arts. 1, 3, 4))
4For section 18 (material not subject to existing statutory restrictions) substitute—E+W+S+N.I.
“18Destruction of national security material not subject to existing statutory restrictions
(1)This section applies to fingerprints, DNA samples and DNA profiles that—
(a)are held for the purposes of national security by a law enforcement authority under the law of England and Wales or Northern Ireland, and
(b)are not held subject to existing statutory restrictions.
(2)Material to which this section applies (“section 18 material”) must be destroyed if it appears to the responsible officer that the condition in subsection (3) is not met.
(a)obtained by the law enforcement authority pursuant to an authorisation under Part 3 of the Police Act 1997 (authorisation of action in respect of property),
(b)obtained by the law enforcement authority in the course of surveillance, or use of a covert human intelligence source, authorised under Part 2 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000,
(c)supplied to the law enforcement authority by another law enforcement authority, or
(d)otherwise lawfully obtained or acquired by the law enforcement authority for any of the purposes mentioned in section 18D(1).
(4)In any other case, section 18 material must be destroyed unless it is retained by the law enforcement authority under any power conferred by section 18A or 18B, but this is subject to subsection (5).
(5)A DNA sample to which this section applies must be destroyed—
(b)if sooner, before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the date on which it was taken.
(6)Section 18 material which ceases to be retained under a power mentioned in subsection (4) may continue to be retained under any other such power which applies to it.
(7)Nothing in this section prevents section 18 material from being checked against other fingerprints, DNA samples or DNA profiles held by a law enforcement authority within such time as may reasonably be required for the check, if the responsible officer considers the check to be desirable.
(8)For the purposes of subsection (1), the following are “existing statutory restrictions”—
(a)paragraph 18(2) of Schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 1971;
(b)sections 22, 63A and 63D to 63U of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and any corresponding provision in an order under section 113 of that Act;
(c)Articles 24, 63A and 64 of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I. 12));
(d)section 2(2) of the Security Service Act 1989;
(e)section 2(2) of the Intelligence Services Act 1994;
(f)paragraphs 20(3) and 20A to 20J of Schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000;
(g)section 56 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001;
(h)paragraph 8 of Schedule 4 to the International Criminal Court Act 2001;
(i)sections 73, 83, 87, 88 and 89 of the Armed Forces Act 2006 and any provision relating to the retention of material in an order made under section 74, 93 or 323 of that Act;
(j)paragraphs 5 to 14 of Schedule 6 to the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011.
18ARetention of material: general
(1)Section 18 material which is not a DNA sample and relates to a person who has no previous convictions or only one exempt conviction may be retained by the law enforcement authority until the end of the retention period specified in subsection (2), but this is subject to subsection (5).
(2)The retention period is—
(3)Section 18 material which is not a DNA sample and relates to a person who has previously been convicted of a recordable offence (other than a single exempt conviction), or is so convicted before the material is required to be destroyed by virtue of this section, may be retained indefinitely.
(4)Section 18 material which is not a DNA sample may be retained indefinitely if—
(a)it is held by the law enforcement authority in a form which does not include information which identifies the person to whom the material relates, and
(b)the law enforcement authority does not know, and has never known, the identity of the person to whom the material relates.
(5)In a case where section 18 material is being retained by a law enforcement authority under subsection (4), if—
(a)the law enforcement authority comes to know the identity of the person to whom the material relates, and
(b)the material relates to a person who has no previous convictions or only one exempt conviction,
(6)The retention period is the period of 3 years beginning with the date on which the identity of the person to whom the material relates comes to be known by the law enforcement authority.
18BRetention for purposes of national security
(1)Section 18 material which is not a DNA sample may be retained for as long as a national security determination made by the responsible officer has effect in relation to it.
(2)A national security determination is made if the responsible officer determines that it is necessary for any such section 18 material to be retained for the purposes of national security.
18CDestruction of copies
(1)If fingerprints are required by section 18 to be destroyed, any copies of the fingerprints held by the law enforcement authority concerned must also be destroyed.
(2)If a DNA profile is required by that section to be destroyed, no copy may be retained by the law enforcement authority concerned except in a form which does not include information which identifies the person to whom the DNA profile relates.
18DUse of retained material
(1)Section 18 material must not be used other than—
(2)Subject to subsection (1), section 18 material may be checked against other fingerprints, DNA samples or DNA profiles held by a law enforcement authority or the Scottish Police Services Authority if the responsible officer considers the check to be desirable.
(3)Material which is required by section 18 to be destroyed must not at any time after it is required to be destroyed be used—
18ESections 18 to 18E: supplementary provisions
(1)In sections 18 to 18D and this section—
“law enforcement authority” means—
a police force,
the Serious Organised Crime Agency,
a person formed or existing under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom so far as exercising functions which—
correspond to those of a police force, or
otherwise involve the investigation or prosecution of offences;
in relation to a conviction in Northern Ireland, the meaning given by Article 2(2) of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I. 12));
in relation to material obtained or acquired by a police force in England and Wales, the chief officer of the police force;
in relation to material obtained or acquired by the Police Service of Northern Ireland or the Police Service of Northern Ireland Reserve, the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland;
in relation to material obtained or acquired by the Ministry of Defence Police, the Chief Constable of the Ministry of Defence Police;
in relation to material obtained or acquired by the Royal Navy Police, the Royal Military Police or the Royal Air Force Police, the Provost Marshal for the police force which obtained or acquired the material;
in relation to material obtained or acquired by the British Transport Police, the Chief Constable of the British Transport Police;
in relation to material obtained or acquired by the Serious Organised Crime Agency, the Director General of the Serious Organised Crime Agency;
in relation to material obtained or acquired by the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, any of those Commissioners;
in relation to any other material, such person as the Secretary of State may by order specify;
“section 18 material” has the meaning given by section 18(2);
“terrorist investigation” has the meaning given by section 32 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
(3)For the purposes of section 18A, a person is to be treated as having been convicted of an offence if the person—
(a)has been given a caution in respect of the offence which, at the time of the caution, the person has admitted,
(b)has been warned or reprimanded under section 65 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 for the offence,
(c)has been found not guilty of the offence by reason of insanity, or
(d)has been found to be under a disability and to have done the act charged in respect of the offence.
(4)Sections 18A and this section, so far as they relate to persons convicted of an offence, have effect despite anything in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
(5)But a person is not to be treated as having been convicted of an offence if that conviction is a disregarded conviction or caution by virtue of section 92 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.
(6)For the purposes of section 18A—
(a)a person has no previous convictions if the person has not previously been convicted in England and Wales or Northern Ireland of a recordable offence, and
(b)if the person has been previously so convicted of a recordable offence, the conviction is exempt if it is in respect of a recordable offence, other than a qualifying offence, committed when the person was aged under 18.
(7)In subsection (6), “qualifying offence” has—
(8)If a person is convicted of more than one offence arising out of a single course of action, those convictions are to be treated as a single conviction for the purposes of calculating under section 18A whether the person has been convicted of only one offence.”
I7Sch. 1 para. 4 in force at 31.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/1814, art. 2(k) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2013/1813 (as amended (30.10.2016) by S.I. 2016/682, arts. 1, 3, 4))
Part 4 E+W+S+N.I.Material subject to the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011
5After paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 6 to the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011(fingerprints and samples) insert—E+W+S+N.I.
“(2A)But a person is not to be treated as having been convicted of an offence if that conviction is a disregarded conviction or caution by virtue of section 92 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.”
I8Sch. 1 para. 5 in force at 31.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/1814, art. 2(k) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2013/1813 (as amended (30.10.2016) by S.I. 2016/682, arts. 1, 3, 4))
Part 5 SMaterial subject to the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995
6(1)The Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 is amended as follows.S
(2)In section 18(3), for “18F” substitute “ 18G ”.
(3)After section 18F insert—
“18GRetention of samples etc: national security
(6)In this section, “the relevant chief constable” means the chief constable of the police force of which the constable who took the relevant physical data, or to whom it was provided, or who took or directed the taking of the sample, was a member.”
I9Sch. 1 para. 6 in force at 31.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/1814, art. 2(k) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2013/1813)
Part 6 N.I.Material subject to the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989
7(1)This paragraph applies to the following material—N.I.
(a)a DNA profile to which Article 64 of the 1989 Order (destruction of fingerprints and samples) applies, or
(b)fingerprints to which Article 64 of the 1989 Order applies, other than fingerprints taken under Article 61(6A) of that Order.
(2)If the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland determines that it is necessary for any material to which this paragraph applies to be retained for the purposes of national security—
(a)the material is not required to be destroyed in accordance with Article 64 of the 1989 Order, and
(b)Article 64(3AB) of that Order does not apply to the material,
(3)A determination under sub-paragraph (2) (“a national security determination”)—
(b)has effect for a maximum of 2 years beginning with the date on which the material would (but for this paragraph) first become liable for destruction under the 1989 Order, and
(4)Material retained under this paragraph must not be used other than—
(5)This paragraph has effect despite any provision to the contrary in the 1989 Order.
(i)constitutes one or more criminal offences (whether under the law of Northern Ireland or of any country or territory outside Northern Ireland), or
(ii)is, or corresponds to, any conduct which, if it all took place in Northern Ireland, would constitute one or more criminal offences, and
(c)the references to an investigation and to a prosecution include references, respectively, to any investigation outside Northern Ireland of any crime or suspected crime and to a prosecution brought in respect of any crime in a country or territory outside Northern Ireland.
“the 1989 Order” means the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I. 12));
“offence”, in relation to any country or territory outside Northern Ireland, includes an act punishable under the law of that country or territory, however it is described;
Part 7 E+W+S+N.I.Corresponding Northern Ireland provision for excepted or reserved matters etc.
8(1)The Secretary of State may make an order under sub-paragraph (2) or (3) if the Secretary of State considers that the subject-matter in relation to Northern Ireland of any provision of an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly made in [F12013 or 2014] is the same as the subject-matter in relation to England and Wales of any provision made by any of sections 1 to 18 and 23 to 25 of this Act.E+W+S+N.I.
(2)The Secretary of State may by order make excepted or reserved provision in relation to Northern Ireland which is about the same subject-matter as any provision made in relation to England and Wales by any of sections 1 to 18 and 23 to 25 of this Act.
(3)The Secretary of State may by order make such provision as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in consequence of the Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly or an order under sub-paragraph (2).
(4)The power to make an order under this paragraph—
(b)includes power to make incidental, supplementary, transitional, transitory or saving provision,
(c)may, in particular, be exercised by amending, repealing, revoking or otherwise modifying any provision made by or under an enactment (including this Act).
(5)An order under this paragraph may not make provision which—
(a)if it were contained in an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly, would be within the legislative competence of the Northern Ireland Assembly and would deal with a transferred matter without being ancillary to other provision (whether in the Act or previously enacted) which deals with an excepted or reserved matter,
(b)if it were contained in an Act of the Scottish Parliament, would be within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament, or
(c)if it were contained in an Act of the National Assembly for Wales, would be within the legislative competence of the National Assembly for Wales.
(6)Subject to sub-paragraph (7), a statutory instrument containing an order under this paragraph is not to be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.
(7)A statutory instrument containing an order under this paragraph which neither amends nor repeals any provision of primary legislation is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
“excepted or reserved matter” have the meanings given by section 4(1) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998,
“excepted or reserved provision” means provision which—
forms part of the law of Northern Ireland, and
is not prohibited by sub-paragraph (5)(a),
“transferred matter” has the meaning given by section 4(1) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998.
F1Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(1) substituted (13.3.2014) by Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (c. 13), ss. 24, 28(1)(h)(3)
I10Sch. 1 para. 8 in force at 16.12.2014 by S.I. 2014/3315, art. 2