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The Identification of Prisoners Act `1920

An Act to authorize the taking of measurements and photographs of convicts and others.

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    • 1Short title and extent
    • 2Definitions
    • 3Taking of measurements, etc., of convicted persons
    • 4Taking of measurements, etc., of non-convicted persons
    • 5Power of Magistrate to order a person to be measured or photographed
    • 6Resistance to the taking measurements, etc
    • 7Destruction of photographs and records of measurements, etc., on acquittal
    • 8Power to make rules
    • 9Bar of suits