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::(ii) section 129, 190 or 202 of the Air Force Act 1955 (duties of governors of prisons and others to receive prisoners, deserters, absentees and persons under escort);
 * (iii) section 107 of the Naval Discipline Act 1957 (duties of governors of civil prisons etc.); or
 * (iv) paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 to the Reserve Forces Act 1980 (duties of governors of civil prisons); or
 * (d) any right of a person in police detention to apply for a writ of habeas corpus or other prerogative remedy.

52. This Part of this Act does not apply to a child (as for the time being defined for the purposes of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969) who is arrested without a warrant otherwise than for homicide and to whom section 28(4) and (5) of that Act accordingly apply.   

53.—(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, there shall cease to have effect any Act (including a local Act) passed before this Act in so far as it authorises—
 * (a) any search by a constable of a person in police detention at a police station; or
 * (b) an intimate search of a person by a constable;

and any rule of common law which authorises a search such as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) above is abolished.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1)(a) above shall affect paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 3 to the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1984.

54.—(1) The custody officer at a police station shall ascertain and record or cause to be recorded everything which a person has with him when he is—
 * (a) brought to the station after being arrested elsewhere or after being committed to custody by an order or sentence of a court; or
 * (b) arrested at the station after—
 * (i) having attended voluntarily there; or
 * (ii) having accompanied a constable there without having been arrested.

