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Serious Crime Bill [HL]


 

Serious Crime Bill [HL]

 

[AS AMENDED IN PUBLIC BILL COMMITTEE]

 
 

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: supplementary

5   

Type of provision that may be made by orders

General safeguards in relation to orders

6   

Any individual must be 18 or over

7   

Other exceptions

8   

Limited class of applicants for making of orders

9   

Right of third parties to make representations

10   

Notice requirements in relation to orders

Information safeguards

11   

Restrictions on oral answers

12   

Restrictions for legal professional privilege

13   

Restrictions on excluded material and banking information

14   

Restrictions relating to other enactments

15   

Restrictions on use of information obtained

Duration, variation and discharge of orders

16   

Duration of orders

17   

Variation of orders

18   

Discharge of orders

Extension of jurisdiction to Crown Court

19   

Orders by Crown Court on conviction

20   

Powers of Crown Court to vary orders on conviction

 

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21   

Powers of Crown Court to vary orders on breach

22   

Inter-relationship between different types of orders

Appeals

23   

Additional right of appeal from High Court

24   

Appeals from Crown Court to Court of Appeal

Enforcement

25   

Offence of failing to comply with order

26   

Powers of forfeiture in respect of offence

27   

Powers to wind up companies etc: England and Wales and Scotland

28   

Powers to wind up companies etc: Northern Ireland

29   

Powers to wind up: supplementary

Particular types of persons

30   

Bodies corporate including limited liability partnerships

31   

Other partnerships

32   

Unincorporated associations

33   

Overseas bodies

34   

Providers of information society services

Supplementary

35   

Proceedings in the High Court

36   

Proceedings in the Crown Court

37   

Functions of applicant authorities

38   

Disclosure of information in accordance with orders

39   

Powers of law enforcement officers to retain documents

Interpretation: Part 1

40   

Interpretation: Part 1

41   

Index of defined expressions: Part 1

Part 2

Encouraging or assisting crime

Inchoate offences

42   

Intentionally encouraging or assisting an offence

43   

Encouraging or assisting an offence believing it will be committed

44   

Encouraging or assisting offences believing one or more will be committed

45   

Proving an offence under this Part

46   

Proving an offence under section 44

47   

Supplemental provisions

Reasonableness defence

48   

Defence of acting reasonably

 
 

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Limitation on liability

49   

Protective offences: victims not liable

Jurisdiction and procedure

50   

Jurisdiction

51   

Prosecution of offences triable by reason of Schedule 4

52   

Institution of proceedings etc. for an offence under this Part

53   

Mode of trial

54   

Persons who may be perpetrators or encouragers etc.

55   

Alternative verdicts and guilty pleas

56   

Penalties

Consequential alterations of the law

57   

Abolition of common law replaced by this Part

58   

Amendments relating to service law

59   

Repeal of offence of enabling unauthorised access to computer material

60   

No individual liability in respect of corporate manslaughter

61   

Consequential amendments: Part 2

Interpretation: Part 2

62   

Encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence

63   

Being capable of encouraging or assisting

64   

Indirectly encouraging or assisting

65   

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

66   

Disclosure of information to prevent fraud

67   

Offence for certain further disclosures of information

68   

Penalty and prosecution for offence under section 67

69   

Code of practice for disclosure of information to prevent fraud

70   

Data protection rules

Data matching

71   

Data matching

 
 

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Chapter 2

Proceeds of crime

Assets Recovery Agency

72   

Abolition of Assets Recovery Agency and redistribution of functions etc.

Detained cash investigations: use of production orders and warrants

73   

Use of production orders for detained cash investigations

74   

Use of search warrants etc. for detained cash investigations

75   

Further provision about detained cash investigations

Extension of powers of accredited financial investigators

76   

Powers to seize property to which restraint orders apply

77   

Powers to recover cash

78   

Powers in relation to certain investigations

79   

Supplementary provision in relation to new powers

Miscellaneous

80   

Powers of management receivers and enforcement receivers

81   

Powers for prosecutors to appear in cash recovery proceedings

82   

Disclosure of information by Revenue and Customs

83   

Use of force in executing search warrants: Scotland

Chapter 3

Regulation of investigatory powers

84   

Extension of powers of Revenue and Customs

Part 4

General and final provisions

General

85   

Orders

86   

Supplementary, incidental and consequential provision

87   

Transitional and transitory provisions and savings

88   

Repeals and revocations

Final

89   

Extent

90   

Commencement

91   

Short title

 
 

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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

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   —   

Transitional and transitory provisions and savings

Schedule 14   —   

Repeals and revocations

 
 

 
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