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Serious Crime Bill [HL]

 
 

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Home Office, are published separately

as Bill 103—EN.

EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Secretary John Reid has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the

Human Rights Act 1998:

In my view the provisions of the Serious Crime Bill [HL] are compatible with the

Convention rights.

 

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Contents

Part 1

Serious Crime Prevention Orders

General

1   

Serious crime prevention orders

2   

Involvement in serious crime: England and Wales orders

3   

Involvement in serious crime: Northern Ireland orders

4   

Involvement in serious crime: evidence

5   

Involvement in serious crime: supplementary

6   

Type of provision that may be made by orders

General safeguards in relation to orders

7   

Any individual must be 18 or over

8   

Other exceptions

9   

Limited class of applicants for making of orders

10   

Right of third parties to make representations

11   

Notice requirements in relation to orders

Information safeguards

12   

Restrictions on oral answers

13   

Restrictions for legal professional privilege

14   

Restrictions on excluded material and banking information

15   

Restrictions relating to other enactments

16   

Restrictions on use of information obtained

Duration, variation and discharge of orders

17   

Duration of orders

18   

Variation of orders

19   

Discharge of orders

Extension of jurisdiction to Crown Court

20   

Orders by Crown Court on conviction

 

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21   

Powers of Crown Court to vary orders on conviction

22   

Powers of Crown Court to vary orders on breach

23   

Inter-relationship between different types of orders

Appeals

24   

Additional right of appeal from High Court

25   

Appeals from Crown Court to Court of Appeal

Enforcement

26   

Offence of failing to comply with order

27   

Powers of forfeiture in respect of offence

28   

Powers to wind up companies etc: England and Wales

29   

Powers to wind up companies etc: Northern Ireland

Particular types of bodies

30   

Bodies corporate including limited liability partnerships

31   

Other partnerships

32   

Unincorporated associations

33   

Overseas bodies

Supplementary

34   

Proceedings in the High Court

35   

Proceedings in the Crown Court

36   

Functions of applicant authorities

37   

Disclosure of information in accordance with orders

38   

Powers of law enforcement officers to retain documents

Interpretation: Part 1

39   

Interpretation: Part 1

40   

Index of defined expressions: Part 1

Part 2

Encouraging or assisting crime

Inchoate offences

41   

Intentionally encouraging or assisting an offence

42   

Encouraging or assisting an offence believing it will be committed

43   

Encouraging or assisting offences believing one or more will be committed

44   

Proving an offence under this Part

45   

Proving an offence under section 43

46   

Supplemental provisions

Reasonableness defence

47   

Defence of acting reasonably

 
 

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Limitation on liability

48   

Protective offences: victims not liable

Jurisdiction and procedure

49   

Jurisdiction

50   

Prosecution of offences triable by reason of Schedule 4

51   

Mode of trial

52   

Persons who may be perpetrators or encouragers etc.

53   

Alternative verdicts and guilty pleas

54   

Penalties

Consequential alterations of the law

55   

Abolition of common law replaced by this Part

56   

Amendments relating to service law

57   

Repeal of offence of enabling unauthorised access to computer material

58   

Consequential amendments: Part 2

Interpretation: Part 2

59   

Encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence

60   

Being capable of encouraging or assisting

61   

Indirectly encouraging or assisting

62   

Course of conduct

Part 3

Other measures to prevent or disrupt serious and other crime

Chapter 1

Prevention of fraud

Sharing information with anti-fraud organisations

63   

Disclosure of information to prevent fraud

64   

Offence for certain further disclosures of information

65   

Penalty and prosecution for offence under section 64

66   

Data protection rules

Data matching

67   

Data matching

Chapter 2

Proceeds of crime

Assets Recovery Agency

68   

Abolition of Assets Recovery Agency and redistribution of functions etc.

 
 

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Detained cash investigations: use of production orders and warrants

69   

Use of production orders for detained cash investigations

70   

Use of search warrants etc. for detained cash investigations

71   

Further provision about detained cash investigations

Extension of powers of accredited financial investigators

72   

Powers to seize property to which restraint orders apply

73   

Powers to recover cash

74   

Powers in relation to certain investigations

75   

Supplementary provision in relation to new powers

Use of force in executing search warrants: Scotland

76   

Use of force in executing search warrants: Scotland

Chapter 3

Regulation of investigatory powers

77   

Extension of powers of Revenue and Customs

Chapter 4

Other measures to disrupt serious crime

78   

Power to search for firearms

Part 4

General and final provisions

General

79   

Orders of the Secretary of State and the Scottish Ministers

80   

Supplementary, incidental and consequential provision

81   

Transitional and transitory provisions and savings

82   

Repeals and revocations

Final

83   

Extent

84   

Commencement

85   

Short title

Schedule 1   —   

Serious offences

Part 1   —   

Serious offences in England and Wales

Part 2   —   

Serious offences in Northern Ireland

Schedule 2   —   

Functions of applicant authorities under Part 1

Schedule 3   —   

Listed Offences

 
 

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Part 1   —   

Offences common to England and Wales and Northern Ireland

Part 2   —   

Offences under particular enactments: England and Wales

Part 3   —   

Other offences: England and Wales

Part 4   —   

Offences under particular enactments: Northern Ireland

Part 5   —   

Other offences: Northern Ireland

Schedule 4   —   

Extra-territoriality

Schedule 5   —   

Amendments relating to service law

Schedule 6   —   

Minor and consequential amendments: Part 2

Part 1   —   

References to common law offence of incitement

Part 2   —   

Other minor and consequential amendments

Schedule 7   —   

Data matching

Part 1   —   

Data matching: England

Part 2   —   

Data matching: Wales

Part 3   —   

Data matching: Northern Ireland

Schedule 8   —   

Abolition of Assets Recovery Agency and its Director

Part 1   —   

Abolition of confiscation functions

Part 2   —   

Transfer of civil recovery functions

Part 3   —   

Transfer or abolition of Revenue functions

Part 4   —   

Transfer of investigation functions

Part 5   —   

Transfer of accreditation and training functions

Part 6   —   

Other amendments to 2002 Act

Part 7   —   

Amendments to other enactments

Schedule 9   —   

Transfers to SOCA or NPIA

Schedule 10   —   

Detained cash investigations: further provision

Schedule 11   —   

Powers to recover cash: financial investigators

Schedule 12   —   

Revenue and Customs: regulation of investigatory powers

Schedule 13   —   

Intercept evidence

Schedule 14   —   

Transitional and transitory provisions and savings

Schedule 15   —   

Repeals and revocations

 
 

 
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