{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/schedule-21/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026/schedule-21/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/20",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-policing-act-2026",
  "path": "schedule/21/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "The serious risk of injustice test",
  "text": "In section 10 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (assumptions to be made in case of criminal lifestyle), after subsection (6) insert—\n“(6A) In determining whether there would be a serious risk of injustice if a required assumption were made in relation to particular property or expenditure, the court must consider all the circumstances of the case and must, in particular, give the appropriate weight to—\n(a) any evidence about the serious risk of injustice that has been made available to it, and\n(b) any explanation given by the defendant for being unable to provide evidence that would have shown the assumption to be incorrect.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 3 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 3 in force at 29.6.2026 by S.I. 2026/689, reg. 2(1)(z12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/20/schedule/21/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:58.060228+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."
}