{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-courts-act-2013/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-courts-act-2013/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2013/22",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Courts Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-courts-act-2013",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Relationships between NCA and other agencies: tasking etc",
  "text": "(1) Any of the following persons may perform a task if the Director General requests the person to perform it—\n(a) the chief officer of a UK police force;\n(b) a UK law enforcement agency.\n(2) A request under subsection (1)—\n(a) may be made only if the Director General considers that performance of the task would assist the NCA to exercise functions;\n(b) must explain how performance of the requested task would so assist the exercise of functions.\n(3) The Director General may perform a task if any of the following persons requests the Director General to perform it—\n(a) the chief officer of a UK police force;\n(b) a UK law enforcement agency.\n(4) A request under subsection (3)—\n(a) may be made only if the person making it considers that performance of the task would assist that person — or, in a case where that person is the chief officer of a police force, would assist that person or police force — to exercise functions;\n(b) must explain how performance of the requested task would so assist the exercise of functions.\n(5) The Director General may direct any of the following persons to perform a task specified in the direction—\n(a) the chief officer of an England and Wales police force;\n(b) the Chief Constable of the British Transport Police.\n(c) the Director of the Serious Fraud Office.\n(6) The Director General may give a direction under subsection (5) only if the Director General considers that—\n(a) performance of the task would assist the NCA to exercise functions;\n(b) it is expedient for the directed person to perform that task; and\n(c) satisfactory arrangements cannot be made, or cannot be made in time, under subsection (1).\n(7) A person given a direction under this section must comply with it.\n(8) If a person is requested or directed under this section to perform a task, the person may comply with that request or direction by securing that the task is performed by another person.\n(9) The Director General may give a direction under this section to the Chief Constable of the British Transport Police only if the Secretary of State consents.\n(10) Schedule 3 (relationships between NCA and other agencies) has effect.\n(11) This section has effect subject to Part 5 (payment for tasks etc) of Schedule 3.\n(12) Paragraph 33 of Schedule 3 gives the Secretary of State power to amend this section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 5(5)(c) inserted (10.5.2024) by The National Crime Agency (Directed Tasking) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/629), arts. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5(1)-(9) (11) (12) in force at 7.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/1682, art. 3(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 5(10) in force at 8.5.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/1042, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 5(10) in force at 7.10.2013 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2013/1682, art. 3(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/22/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:16.888200+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}