Provision of information relating to a relevant person
432 Provision of information relating to a relevant person
This section applies if a relative, friend or lawyer of a relevant person asks for information about the person’s whereabouts.
A police officer must, if practicable, inform the relevant person of the request and, after doing so, give the information to the person who asked for it.
The police officer is not required to disclose the person’s whereabouts if—
the relevant person refuses to agree to giving the information and the refusal is in writing or electronically recorded; or
the whereabouts of the relevant person—
are not in a register that the police officer may inspect; and
are otherwise not actually known to the police officer.
Also, the police officer is not required to inform the relevant person of the request if the police officer reasonably suspects the person asking for the information is not a relative, friend or lawyer of the relevant person.
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