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Policing and Crime Bill

 

Policing and Crime Bill

 
 

EXPLANATORY NOTES

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

as Bill 7—EN.

EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Secretary Jacqui Smith has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the

Human Rights Act 1998:

In my view the provisions of the Policing and Crime Bill are compatible with the

Convention rights.

 

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Contents

Part 1

Police reform

Public accountability

1   

Duty of police authorities in relation to public accountability

Appointment of senior officers

2   

Police Senior Appointments Panel

3   

Regulations about senior officers

4   

Metropolitan police force appointments

Police co-operation

5   

Police collaboration

6   

Authorisations to interfere with property etc

7   

Authorisations for obtaining and disclosing communications data

8   

Authorisations for surveillance etc

9   

Police officers engaged on service outside their force etc

10   

Police equipment

11   

Police procedures and practices

12   

Police facilities and services

Part 2

Sexual offences and sex establishments

Prostitution

13   

Paying for sexual services of a controlled prostitute: England and Wales

14   

Paying for sexual services of a controlled prostitute: Northern Ireland

15   

Amendment to offence of loitering etc for purposes of prostitution

16   

Orders requiring attendance at meetings

17   

Rehabilitation of offenders: orders under section 1(2A) of the Street Offences

Act 1959

18   

Soliciting: England and Wales

 

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Soliciting: Northern Ireland

Closure orders: sexual offences

20   

Closure orders

Orders imposed on sex offenders

21   

Time limits

22   

Foreign travel orders: grounds

23   

Foreign travel orders: duration

24   

Foreign travel orders: surrender of passports

Sex establishments

25   

Regulation of lap dancing and other sex encounter venues etc

Part 3

Alcohol misuse

26   

Increase in penalty for offence

27   

Selling alcohol to children

28   

Confiscating alcohol from young persons

29   

Offence of persistently possessing alcohol in a public place

30   

Directions to individuals who represent a risk of disorder

31   

General licensing conditions relating to alcohol

Part 4

Proceeds of Crime

Confiscation

32   

Recovery of expenses etc

33   

Power to retain seized property: England and Wales

34   

Power to retain seized property: Scotland

35   

Power to retain seized property: Northern Ireland

36   

Search and seizure of property: England and Wales

37   

Search and seizure of property: Scotland

38   

Search and seizure of property: Northern Ireland

39   

Power to sell seized personal property: England and Wales

40   

Power to sell seized personal property: Scotland

41   

Power to sell seized personal property: Northern Ireland

42   

Payment of compensation

Civil recovery

43   

Limitation

44   

Power to search vehicles

45   

Detention of seized cash

46   

Forfeiture of detained cash

 

 

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Detained cash investigations

47   

Transfer of jurisdiction to Crown Court

Part 5

Extradition

Alerts

48   

Article 26 alerts

49   

Article 95 alerts

Deferral of extradition

50   

Extradition to category 1 territory

51   

Extradition to category 2 territory

52   

Person charged with offence or serving sentence of imprisonment

Return to overseas territory

53   

Return from category 1 territory

54   

Return from category 2 territory

Extradition to UK

55   

Return to extraditing territory etc

56   

Cases in which sentence treated as served

57   

Dealing with person for other offences

Ancillary matters

58   

Provisional arrest

59   

Use of live link in extradition proceedings

Part 6

Aviation security

60   

Security planning for airports

61   

Policing at airports

Part 7

Miscellaneous

Criminal records etc

62   

Renaming of Independent Barring Board

63   

Educational establishments: check on members of governing body

64   

Monitoring application

65   

Monitoring: additional fees

66   

Vetting information

67   

Notification of cessation of monitoring

68   

Criminal conviction certificates to be given to employers

 

 

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Certificates of criminal records etc: right to work information

70   

Criminal conviction certificates: verification of identity

71   

Registered persons

72   

Criminal records: applications

Border controls

73   

General information powers in relation to persons entering or leaving the UK

74   

Powers in relation to cash

75   

Lawful interception of postal items by Revenue and Customs

76   

Prohibition on importation or exportation of false identity documents etc

77   

Prohibition on importation of offensive weapons

Football spectators

78   

Prohibiting attendance at matches in Scotland and Northern Ireland etc

79   

Requirements to report at police stations

80   

Enforcement of 1989 Act in Scotland and Northern Ireland

81   

Enforcement of 2006 Act in England and Wales and Northern Ireland

82   

Relevant offences for purposes of Part 2 of 1989 Act

Other

83   

Strategies for crime reduction etc: probation authorities

84   

Application of aspects of UK law to SOCA employees working abroad

85   

Partial exemption for SCDEA from Firearms Act 1968

Part 8

General

86   

Minor and consequential amendments and repeals and revocations

87   

Transitional, transitory and saving provision

88   

Financial provisions

89   

Extent

90   

Commencement

91   

Short title

Schedule 1   —   

Schedule to the Street Offences Act 1959

Schedule 2   —   

Closure orders

Schedule 3   —   

Lap dancing and other sex encounter venues etc: transitional

provision

Schedule 4   —   

General licensing conditions relating to alcohol

Part 1   —   

Premises licences

Part 2   —   

Club premises certificates

Schedule 5   —   

Amendment of Part 3 of the Aviation Security Act 1982

Part 1   —   

Amendments

Part 2   —   

Transitional and saving provision

Schedule 6   —   

Minor and consequential amendments

Part 1   —   

Police collaboration

Part 2   —   

Police authorisations in respect of communications data

 

 

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Part 3   —   

Sexual offences and sex establishments

Part 4   —   

Alcohol misuse other than general licensing conditions

Part 5   —   

General licensing conditions relating to alcohol

Part 6   —   

Proceeds of crime: confiscation

Part 7   —   

Proceeds of crime: forfeiture of detained cash

Part 8   —   

Proceeds of crime: detained cash investigations

Part 9   —   

Criminal records

Part 10   —   

Border controls

Part 11   —   

Football spectators

Part 12   —   

Redundant provisions etc

Schedule 7   —   

Repeals and revocations

Part 1   —   

Appointment of senior police officers

Part 2   —   

Sexual offences

Part 3   —   

Alcohol misuse

Part 4   —   

Detained cash investigations

Part 5   —   

Extradition

Part 6   —   

Security planning at airports

Part 7   —   

Criminal records etc

Part 8   —   

Border control powers in relation to cash

Part 9   —   

Offensive weapons

Part 10   —   

Football spectators

Part 11   —   

Redundant provisions

 

 

 
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