§ Amendments made: No. 93, in page 96, line 37, after `Scotland' insert 'or in Northern Ireland'.
§ No. 94, in page 97, line 3, after 'Wales' insert 'or in Northern Ireland'.
§ No. 95, in page 97, line 5, after 'Wales' insert 'or in Northern Ireland'.
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No. 96, in page 97, line 9, at end insert—
'(5) Where a constable of a police force in Northern Ireland would, in relation to an offence, have power to arrest a person in Northern Ireland under Article 26(6) or (7) or 27 of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (arrestable offences and non-arrestable offences in certain circumstances) a constable of a police force in England and Wales or Scotland shall have the like power of arrest in Northern Ireland.
(6) Where a constable of a police force in England and Wales or in Scotland arrests a person in Northern Ireland by virtue of subsection (5) above—
- (a) the constable shall be subject to requirements to inform the arrested person that he is under arrest and of the grounds for it corresponding to the requirements imposed by Article 30 of that Order;
- (b) the constable shall be subject to a requirement to take the arrested person to a police station corresponding to the requirement imposed by Article 32 of that Order and so as respects the other related requirements of that Article; and
- (c) the constable shall have powers to search the arrested person corresponding to the powers conferred by Article 34 of that Order.
§ (7) In this section "constable of a police force", in relation to Northern Ireland, means a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary or the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve.'.—[Mr. Maclean.]