Clause 14
Counter-Terrorism Bill
4:45 pm
Tony McNulty (Minister of State (Security, Counter-terrorism, Crime and Policing), Home Office; Harrow East, Labour)
Clause 14 makes amendments to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and Clause 15 makes amendments to the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 to allow samples obtained under PACE to be checked against samples that are
“held by or on behalf of the Security Service or the Secret Intelligence Service.”.
In this case, “samples” means DNA samples derived, for example, from saliva, blood or swab. Most of what I read out as referring to samples and swabs came from the definition in the explanatory memorandum.