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Crime and Policing Bill

Moved by

Lord Davies of Gower

415: After Clause 144, insert the following new Clause—

“Prohibition on police use of digital ID

(1) The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 is amended as follows.

(2) After section 6 insert—

“6A Police not to require digital identity document

(1) If, at any time, His Majesty’s Government introduce a digital identity document scheme, a constable may not—

(a) require a person to produce a digital identity card on request,

(b) ask a person to produce a digital identity document for inspection, or

(c) use any information contained within, or obtained from, a digital identity card for the purposes of investigating a criminal offence.

(2) In this section a “digital identity document” means a document which—

(a) is issued to an individual by a relevant authority,

(b) is available only digitally, and

(c) contains or records information which could be used to identify the person.”.”