Other instruments of interest
DRAFT IMMIGRATION, ASYLUM AND NATIONALITY ACT 2006
(DUTY TO SHARE INFORMATION AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION FOR SECURITY
PURPOSES) ORDER 2008
IMMIGRATION AND POLICE (PASSENGER, CREW AND SERVICE
INFORMATION) ORDER 2008 (SI 2008/5)
IMMIGRATION, ASYLUM AND NATIONALITY ACT 2006 (DATA
SHARING CODE OF PRACTICE) ORDER 2008 (SI 2008/8)
17. These three instruments follow up section
36 of the 2006 Act by setting out the detail of what information
the Home Secretary (in so far as she has functions under the Immigration
Acts), Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and a chief officer of
police ("the border agencies") may share, and the purposes
for which they may use it. Data on passengers, crew, freight,
and other travel-related information specified by order can be
collected in a searchable format that also seeks to minimise the
burden on the carriers. Paragraph 7.7 of the Explanatory Memorandum
explains that the piloting of the scheme has resulted in 1300
arrests for offences including murder, drug smuggling, rape and
assault, and has led to the seizure of counterfeit travel documents,
drugs and other contraband.
EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND (WEST MIDLANDS
OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME) (IMPLEMENTATION) REGULATIONS 2007 (SI 2007/3618)
AND SEVEN SIMILAR INSTRUMENTS (SI 2007/3619-25) FOR OTHER ENGLISH
REGIONS
18. The Department for Communities and Local
Government (DCLG) have laid these eight sets of Regulations. Each
designates the Regional Development Agency for the region concerned,
to carry out functions relating to the management of an operational
programme under the European Regional Development Fund. Each programme
covers the period from January 2007 to December 2013. The regions
concerned do not include London, for which a separate instrument
will be made to take account of the different institutional framework
for governing Greater London. In the Explanatory Memorandum, DCLG
give details of consultation processes in 2006 and 2007 that preceded
the finalisation of the Regulations: responses came from a range
of local, regional and national organisations concerned with regeneration
and economic development, including local government and the voluntary
and business sectors.
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