This section amends section 141 of the IAA 1999. It allows a person who is employed by a contractor in connection with the discharge of the contractor’s duties under a short-term holding facility contract to be an authorised person to take fingerprints under the section.
	In addition, subsection (2) inserts a new subsection (5)(g) into section 141 of the IAA 1999 to create a power for the Secretary of State to make regulations to enable other types of people to be authorised for the taking of biometric information.
Part 2: Asylum and Immigration Powers to take biometric information Section 47: Powers to take biometric information