[SCHEDULE 6B Searches in Specified Areas or Places: Supplementary]

[SCHEDULE 6B Searches in Specified Areas or Places: Supplementary]

[Extent of search powers: supplementary

1

A constable exercising the power conferred by an authorisation under section 47A may not require a person to remove any clothing in public except for headgear, footwear, an outer coat, a jacket or gloves.

2

(1)     Sub-paragraph (2) applies if a constable proposes to search a person or vehicle by virtue of section 47A(2) or (3).

(2)     The constable may detain the person or vehicle for such time as is reasonably required to permit the search to be carried out at or near the place where the person or vehicle is stopped.

Requirements as to writing

3

A senior police officer who gives an authorisation under section 47A orally must confirm it in writing as soon as reasonably practicable.

4

(1)     Where—

(a)     a vehicle or pedestrian is stopped by virtue of section 47A(2) or (3), and

(b)     the driver of the vehicle or the pedestrian applies for a written statement that the vehicle was stopped, or that the pedestrian was stopped, by virtue of section 47A(2) or (as the case may be) (3),

the written statement must be provided.

(2)

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