Information Section 28: fingerprinting
59.Section 28 amends section 141 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to enable fingerprints to be taken and stored from people who are detained under paragraph 16 of Schedule 2 of the Immigration Act 1971.
60.Section 141 sets out a number of categories of person from whom fingerprints can be taken and stored by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate.  It sets out the period during which fingerprints can be taken, and makes provision for destruction. Section 141(7)(d) currently permits fingerprints to be taken and stored from a person who has been arrested under paragraph 17 of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act.
61.Subsection (2) amends section 141(7)(d) of the 1999 Act to enable fingerprints to be taken and stored from a person who has been detained as well as arrested under Schedule 2 of the 1971 Act.
62.Subsection (3) makes a consequential amendment to include detention as well as arrest for the purposes of calculating the relevant period when fingerprints can be taken under section 141 of the 1999 Act.