# The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments and Saving Provision) Order 2013, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order makes amendments to subordinate legislation in consequence of Part 1 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (“the Act”), which abolishes the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the National Policing Improvement Agency and establishes the National Crime Agency.
Paragraph 190 of Schedule 8 (hereinafter referred to as the “the glossing provision”) to the Act provides that in subordinate legislation references to SOCA, the Director General of SOCA, the staff of SOCA and a member of staff of SOCA (“SOCA related references”) are be read as (or including) the corresponding NCA related reference. This means that, for example, a Regulation that imposes an obligation on SOCA will be read as imposing the same obligation on the NCA. Consequently there are references to SOCA in subordinate legislation where textual amendments are not required.
Where it has been necessary to achieve a different result to that produced by the glossing provision, the Schedule of this Order amends the subordinate legislation. Where one SOCA related reference requires amendment all are amended without reliance on the glossing provision.
This Order makes a number of amendments to the various Regulations that govern the pension schemes applicable to police officers in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The amendments remove references to the NPIA, to reflect its abolition. They replace references to SOCA and specified employees of SOCA with references to the NCA and specified NCA officers, to reflect the fact that certain NCA officers will be entitled to membership of the police pension schemes in accordance with section 11 of the Police Pensions Act 1976 (c.35) as amended by paragraph 26 of Schedule 8 to the Act.
Article 3 ensures that rights accrued in relation to the police pension schemes while serving in SOCA and the NPIA are preserved when the references to such service are removed from the relevant instruments.
Paragraph 31 provides that, in accordance with amendments made to the Police (Property) Act 1987 by paragraph 15 of Schedule 8 to the Act, for the purposes of the Police (Property) Regulations 1997 the “relevant authority” will be the agency itself.
Paragraphs 53-57, 70-74 and 81-85 of the Schedule to this Order amend the Regulations that make provision for the payment of compensation to police officers injured in the course of duty. The amendments remove references to SOCA and the NPIA. The Regulations will not apply to NCA officers.
Paragraph 98 provides that being an NCA officer will not entitle a person to active membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme. This will not affect the ability of retired SOCA staff to continue to receive their pension, nor will it affect any accrued rights which staff choose to leave in the pension scheme until they retire.
Paragraph 125 omits SOCA from the list of public authorities required to publish information demonstrating compliance with the duty imposed by section 149(1) of the Equality Act 2010. The NCA will be subject to the duty as a government department.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2318/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-courts-act-2013-consequential-amendments-and-saving-provision-order-2013/note
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