The Prisoner Custody Officers (Searching of Prisoners) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2004
These Rules provide the circumstances and manner in which a prisoner custody officer may search a prisoner (as defined in section 125(1) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994) for whose custody or delivery he is responsible. The role of prisoner custody officer was created by Chapter 3 of Part 8 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. Under section 118(1) of that Act the Secretary of State may make arrangements for the functions of the delivery of prisoners between premises and the custody of prisoners in any court, or during the delivery of a prisoner between premises to be performed by prisoner custody officers.