The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Amendment: Qualifying Offences) Order 2013
This Order adds various offences to the list of “qualifying offences” in section 65A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. Under Part 5 of that Act, designation of an offence as a “qualifying offence” has implications for the circumstances in which a constable can require a person convicted of the offence to attend at a police station for the purpose of taking his fingerprints or a non-intimate sample, and has implications for the period for which such a person’s fingerprints or sample can be retained.