Forensic Procedures Act 2000

If an Officer of Police makes an order authorising the carrying out of a non-intimate forensic procedure on a suspect or charged person who is not in custody, a police officer may, after showing the order or a copy of it to the suspect or charged person, take into custody and detain the suspect or charged person for so long as is reasonably necessary to enable the carrying out of that procedure.

If a suspect or charged person is taken into custody under subsection (1) – the suspect or charged person is not in custody for the purposes of the provisions, other than section 6, of the Criminal Law (Detention and Interrogation) Act 1995; and section 6 of that Act applies as if the suspect or charged person were in custody for the purposes of participating in an investigation as referred to in section 4(2) of that Act.