27Custody of prescribed offender on parole for purposes of carrying out non-intimate forensic procedure

27 Custody of prescribed offender on parole for purposes of carrying out non-intimate forensic procedure

(1)  If a police officer makes an order authorising the carrying out of a non-intimate forensic procedure on a prescribed offender who is on parole, a police officer may, after showing the order or a copy of it to the offender, take into custody and detain the offender for so long as is reasonably necessary to enable the carrying out of the procedure.

(2)  If a prescribed offender is taken into custody under subsection (1) –

(a) the prescribed offender is not in custody for the purposes of the provisions, other than section 6 , of the Criminal Law (Detention and Interrogation) Act 1995 ; and

(b) section 6 of that Act applies as if the prescribed offender were in custody for the purposes of participating in an investigation as referred to in section 4(2) of that Act.