(1)  Where a person is in custody and is taken to a police station or is arrested and taken into custody at a police station, the person must be brought before a custody officer without delay and placed in the custody of the custody officer.

(2)  When a person is brought before a custody officer, the custody officer must –

(a) record the time of the person's arrival at the police station and the time when the person came into the custody officer's custody; and

(b) in the presence of the person in custody make a written record of the grounds for that person's detention; and

(c) inform the person in custody of the reason for that person's detention.

(3)  The police officer conducting the investigation must advise the custody officer –

(a) if the person in custody is questioned, the time of the commencement and ending of the questioning; and

(b) if the person in custody is denied the right under section 6 to communicate with all or any of the persons referred to in section 6 (2) (a) , (b) or (c) , the reason for the denial of the right to communicate, the time when the person was denied that right and the time when the person was allowed to communicate.

(4)  The custody officer must also record –

(a) any transfer of custody of a person brought before the custody officer; and

(b) the details of the advice received by the custody officer under subsection (3) .

(5)  In so far as it is practicable to do so, the recording of any matters referred to in subsections (2) and (4) must be made contemporaneously with the matter recorded.

(6)  A custody officer may transfer a person in custody into the custody of another custody officer.

(7)  If a person in custody is transferred into the custody of another custody officer, the custody officer into whose custody the person is transferred must acknowledge in writing the acceptance of the transfer of that person.

(8)  This section does not apply to a person in custody in respect of whom it is not proposed to conduct any questioning, or carry out any investigation, as mentioned in section 4(2) .