37 Extraction of information from electronic devices: investigations of crime etc
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (2022 c 32) | Legislation

Chapter 3
Extraction of Information from Electronic Devices

37  Extraction of information from electronic devices: investigations of crime etc

(1)     An authorised person may extract information stored on an electronic device from that device if—

(a)     a user of the device has voluntarily provided the device to an authorised person, and

(b)     that user has agreed to the extraction of information from the device by an authorised person.

(2)     The power in subsection (1) may be exercised only for the purposes of—

(a)     preventing, detecting, investigating or prosecuting crime,

(b)     helping to locate a missing person, or

(c)     protecting a child or an at-risk adult from neglect or physical, mental or emotional harm.

(3)     The reference in subsection (2) to crime is a reference to—

(a)     conduct which constitutes one or more criminal offences in any part of the United Kingdom, or

(b)     conduct which, if it took place in any part of the United Kingdom, would constitute one or more criminal offences.

(4)     For the purposes of subsection (2) an adult is an at-risk adult if the authorised person reasonably believes that the adult—

(a)     is experiencing, or at risk of, neglect or physical, mental or emotional

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