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 * “(8) Where a person is committed to detention at a police station under subsection (7) above-
 * (a) he shall not be kept in such detention unless there is a need for him to be so detained for the purposes of inquiries into other offences;
 * (b) if kept in such detention, he shall be brought back before the magistrates' court which committed him as soon as that need ceases;
 * (c) he shall be treated as a person in police detention to whom the duties under section 39 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (responsibilities in relation to persons detained) relate;
 * (d) his detention shall be subject to periodic review at the times set out in section 40 of that Act (review of police detention).”.

49.—(1) In subsection (1) of section 67 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 (computation of custodial sentences) for the words from “period”, in the first place where it occurs, to “the offender” there shall be substituted the words “relevant period, but where he”.

(2) The following subsection shall be inserted after that subsection—
 * “(1A) In subsection (1) above “relevant period” means—
 * (a) any period during which the offender was in police detention in connection with the offence for which the sentence was passed; or
 * (b) any period during which he was in custody—
 * (i) by reason only of having been committed to custody by an order of a court made in connection with any proceedings relating to that sentence or the offence for which it was passed or any proceedings from which those proceedings arose; or
 * (ii) by reason of his having been so committed and having been concurrently detained otherwise than by order of a. court.”.

(3) The following subsections shall be added after subsection (6) of that section—
 * “(7) A person is in police detention for the purposes of this section—
 * (a) at any time when he is in police detention for the