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The Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (Designation of Prosecuting Authorities) Order 2004

S.I. 2004/1034 · Made 31 March 2004 · Extends to England, Wales and Northern Ireland

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art. 2(2)words substitutedSecretaries of State for Children, Schools and Families, for Innovation, Universities and Skills and for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 2007 Sch. para. 42
art. 2(2)words substitutedSecretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills 2009 Sch. para. 26
art. 2(2)word deletedCrime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (Designation of Prosecuting Authorities) 2012 art. 2(2)
art. 2(2)words insertedCrime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (Designation of Prosecuting Authorities) 2012 art. 2(2)
art. 2(2)punctuation replacedCrime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (Designation of Prosecuting Authorities) 2012 art. 2(3)
art. 2(2)words insertedCrime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (Designation of Prosecuting Authorities) 2012 art. 2(3)
art. 2(2)words substitutedFinancial Services Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) 2013 Sch. 2 para. 90
art. 2(2)words omittedPublic Bodies (Merger of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions) 2014 Sch. 3 para. 7
art. 2(2)words substitutedSecretaries of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for International Trade and for Exiting the European Union and the Transfer of Functions (Education and Skills) 2016 Sch. para. 29
art. 2(2)words insertedSecretaries of State for Health and Social Care and for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Transfer of Functions (Commonhold Land) 2018 Sch. para. 21(i)
art. 2(2)words substitutedSecretaries of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for Science, Innovation and Technology, for Business and Trade, and for Culture, Media and Sport and the Transfer of Functions (National Security and Investment Act 2021 etc) 2023 Sch. para. 39

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

CRIMINAL LAW, NORTHERN IRELAND

Made 31st March 2004

Laid before Parliament 2nd April 2004

Coming into force 26th April 2004

In exercise of the powers conferred on him by the definition of “designated” in section 7(5) of the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003f1, the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2003 c. 32.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1I1

This Order may be cited as the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (Designation of Prosecuting Authorities) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 26th April 2004.

2I1

(1)

The prosecuting authorities listed in paragraph (2) are hereby designated for the purposes of section 7(5) of the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003.

(2)

Those prosecuting authorities are—

  • the Attorney General for England and Wales;

  • the Attorney General for Northern Ireland;

  • the Commissioners of Customs and Excise;

  • the Commissioners of Inland Revenue;

  • the Director of the Financial Services Authority;

  • the Director of Public Prosecutions and any Crown Prosecutor;

  • the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland;

  • the Director of the Serious Fraud Office and any person designated under section 1(7) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987f1; and

  • the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.

Signature

Caroline Flint

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

31st March 2004

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates prosecuting authorities for the purposes of section 7(5) of the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003. Section 7(1) of that Act provides for any judicial authority listed in section 7(4) to issue a request for assistance in obtaining outside the United Kingdom any evidence specified in the request for use in criminal proceedings or investigations in the United Kingdom. Section 7(5) provides that, in relation to England and Wales or Northern Ireland, a designated prosecuting authority may itself request such assistance.