Part 7: Supplementary and final provision Section 205: General interpretation
This section is self-explanatory in defining terminology used in this Act.
	"Biometric data" includes DNA profiles held on the police National DNA Database, fingerprints (dactyloscopic data) stored on the National Fingerprint Database and facial images held on the Police National Database.
	Subsection (2) clarifies that (contrary to their usual interpretation in UK law) periods of time referred to in this Act are generally to be interpreted in accordance with Article 3 of EC Regulation 1182/71, which makes provision about the calculation of periods of hours, days, weeks, months and years. Where a period is expressed in days, weeks, months or years and is calculated from the moment at which an event occurs, the day during which the event occurs is not included within the period i.e. the clock starts running on the following day. Where a period is expressed in hours and is calculated from the moment at which an event occurs the hour during which the event occurs is not included within the period i.e. the clock starts running from the following hour. Subsection (2) also provides a list of exceptions to this general interpretation provision – for example, for parliamentary processes, where the usual rules on time periods will instead apply.