1984 Hansard Commons 14 May 108 I refer the honourable Gentleman..to paragraph 3 of annexe A of the draft code on detention which provides that: ‘An intimate search of an arrested juvenile may take place only in the presence of the appropriate adult of the same sex.’

1985 Police & Criminal Evid. Act 1984 (s.66) Codes of Pract. C 58 The appropriate adult should be informed that he is not expected to act simply as an observer. The purposes of his presence are, first, to advise the person being questioned.

1995 Independent 9 Nov. (Suppl.) 2/1 The police are supposed to call in an appropriate adult whenever they think that someone may be vulnerable, and therefore at risk of being led into an unsound confession by the police.

2011 J. Wyatt et al. Oxf. Handbk. Forensic Med. vi. 186 An appropriate adult is not subject to legal privilege and may be required to disclose the content of discussions with the detainee in court.

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Nov. e4 The new book..appears unlikely to become the sort of bible for the newly religious that Small is Beautiful has become for appropriate technologists.

1993 Guardian 3 Sept. ii. 28 The Centre needs an Appropriate Technologist to identify and develop new and existing technologies for training programmes used by a cross-section of people involved in agriculture.

1950 S. A. Mosk Industr. Revol. in Mexico iv. 57 He wanted to encourage that type of industrial development which would permit the inhabitants of the small villages to dovetail industry with the cultivation of their fields. Such development was made possible by coöperation plus an appropriate technology.

1960 Amer. Econ. Rev. 50 655 Work on appropriate technology should have a very high priority.

1973 E. F. Schumacher Small is Beautiful iii. iii. 189 To disseminate relevant information on appropriate technologies for developing countries, particularly on low-cost methods relating to building, water and power, crop-storage and processing, small-scale manufacturing, health services, transportation and so forth.

1992 A. Gore Earth in Balance xiii. 238 A nuclear power plant..may not be an ‘appropriate’ technology for an underdeveloped nation with an unstable government.

1996 N. Maraire Zenzele v. 75 One year we must generate a middle class; the next year they want to dump us with their technology; the following year they recognize that appropriate technology is the answer; and so it goes on.