Part VII
- (b) make an order requiring the silent video recording of interviews to which this section applies in accordance with the code.
(2) This section applies to—
- (a) interviews by police officers of persons detained under section 41 if they take place in a police station (within the meaning of Schedule 8), and
- (b) interviews held by police officers in such other circumstances as the Secretary of State may specify by order.
(3) In this section “police officer” means a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary or the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve.
Codes of practice: supplementary. 101.—(1) This section applies to a code of practice under section 99 or 100.
(2) Where the Secretary of State proposes to issue a code of practice he shall—
- (a) publish a draft,
- (b) consider any representations made to him about the draft, and
- (c) if he thinks it appropriate, modify the draft in the light of any representations made to him.
(3) The Secretary of State shall lay a draft of the code before Parliament.
(4) When the Secretary of State has laid a draft code before Parliament he may bring it into operation by order.
(5) The Secretary of State may revise the whole or any part of a code of practice issued by him and issue the code as revised; and subsections (2) to (4) shall apply to such a revised code as they apply to an original code.
(6) A failure by a police officer to comply with a provision of a code shall not of itself make him liable to criminal or civil proceedings.
(7) A failure by a member of Her Majesty’s forces to comply with a provision of a code shall not of itself make him liable to any criminal or civil proceedings other than—
- (a) proceedings under any provision of the 1955 c. 18.
1955 c. 19.Army Act 1955 or the Air Force Act 1955 other than section 70 (civil offences), and - (b) proceedings under any provision of the 1957 c. 53.Naval Discipline Act 1957 other than section 42 (civil offences).
(8) A code—
- (a) shall be admissible in evidence in criminal or civil proceedings, and
- (b) shall be taken into account by a court or tribunal in any case in which it appears to the court or tribunal to be relevant.
(9) In this section—
- “criminal proceedings” includes proceedings in Northern Ireland before a court-martial constituted under the Army Act 1955, the Air Force Act 1955 or the Naval Discipline Act 1957 or a disciplinary court constituted under section 50 of the 1957 Act and proceedings in Northern Ireland before the Courts-Martial Appeal Court, and
