21
October 2013
PACE (Codes of
Practice Revision)
Home Department
Damian
Green
(Ashford, Conservative)
My
right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has today laid an order under section
67(7A) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (‘PACE’) which brings into
operation amended versions of six of the PACE codes. The Police and Criminal
Evidence Act 1984 (Revision of Codes A, B, C, E, F and H) Order 2013 will bring
these revisions into operation on 27 October.
The
codes which have been revised are A (stop and search), B (search of premises
and seizure of property), C (detention of suspects), E (audio recording of
interviews), F (visual recording of interviews) and H (detention of
terrorism
suspects). The revised codes have been laid before the House today and have all
been subject to statutory consultation as required under section 67(4) of PACE.
I will place a copy of the Government response to consultation in the Library
of the House. Copies of the revised codes are available from the Vote Office.
[…]
Revisions
to codes C and H follow from two legal obligations. The first is to transpose
the legal obligations in the European Union directive 2010/64/EU on the right
to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings into UK domestic
legislation. The amendments clarify and make explicit the requirement to ensure
that suspects who need help to communicate with officers, and to understand the
reasons for their detention in custody and the charges laid against them, are
given access to an interpreter and written translations of documents as
necessary. These revisions do not affect Welsh language schemes. The
transposition date for the directive is 27 October 2013.
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