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and an attempt or conspiracy to commit any such offence is also always a serious arrestable offence for those purposes.

(6) The consequences mentioned in subsections (3) and (4) above are
 * (a) serious harm to the security of the State or to public order;
 * (b) serious interference with the administration of justice or with the investigation of offences or of a particular offence;
 * (c) the death of any person;
 * (d) serious injury to any person;
 * (e) substantial financial gain to any person; and
 * (f) serious financial loss to any person.

(7) Loss is serious for the purposes of this section if, having regard to all the circumstances, it is serious for the person who suffers it.

(8) In this section “injury” includes any disease and any impairment of a person's physical or mental condition.

117. Where any provision of this Act—
 * (a) confers a power on a constable; and
 * (b) does not provide that the power may only be exercise with the consent of some person, other than a police officer,

the officer may use reasonable force, if necessary, in the exercise of the power.

118.—(1) In this Act—
 * “arrestable offence” has the meaning assigned to it by section 24 above;
 * “document” has the same meaning as in Part I of the Civil Evidence Act 1968;
 * “designated police station” has the meaning assigned to it by section 35 above;
 * “intimate search” means a search which consists of the physical examination of a person's body orifices;
 * “item subject to legal privilege” has the meaning assigned to it by section 10 above;
 * “parent or guardian” means—
 * (a) in the case of a child or young person in the care of a local authority, that authority; and
 * (b) in the case of a child or young person in the care of a voluntary organisation in which parental rights and duties with respect to him are vested by

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