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108c. 60


 * “premises” has the meaning assigned to it by section 23 above;
 * “recordable offence” means any offence to which regulations under section 27 above apply;
 * “vessel” includes any ship, boat, raft or other apparatus constructed or adapted for floating on water.

(2) A person is in police detention for the purposes of this Act if—
 * (a) he has been taken to a police station after being arrested for an offence; or
 * (b) he is arrested at a police station after attending voluntarily at the station or accompanying a constable to it,

and is detained there or is detained elsewhere in the charge of a constable, except that a person who is at a court after being charged is not in police detention for those purposes.

119.—(1) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 6 to this Act shall have effect with the amendments there specified.

(2) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 7 to this Act (which include enactments already obsolete or unnecessary) are repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(3) The repeals in Parts II and IV of Schedule 7 to this Act have effect only in relation to criminal proceedings.

120.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, this Act extends to England and Wales only.

(2) The following extend to Scotland only—
 * section 108(4) and (5):
 * section 110;
 * section 111;
 * section 112(1); and
 * section 119(2), so far as it relates to the provisions of the Pedlars Act 1871 repealed by Part VI of Schedule 7.

(3) The following extend to Northern Ireland only—
 * section 6(4); and
 * section 112(2).