{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-international-co-operation-act-2003/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-international-co-operation-act-2003/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/32",
  "legislation_title": "Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-international-co-operation-act-2003",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Extension of statutory search powers in England and Wales and Northern Ireland",
  "text": "(1) Part 2 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60) (powers of entry, search and seizure) is to have effect as if references to indictable offences in section 8 of, and Schedule 1 to, that Act included any conduct which—\n(a) constitutes an offence under the law of a country outside the United Kingdom, and\n(b) would, if it occurred in England and Wales, constitute an indictable offence .\n(2) But an application for a warrant or order by virtue of subsection (1) may be made only—\n(a) in pursuance of a direction given under section 13, or\n(b) if it is an application for a warrant or order under section 8 of, or Schedule 1 to, that Act by a constable for the purposes of an investigation by an international joint investigation team of which he is a member.\n(3) Part 3 of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/ 1341 (N.I.12)) (powers of entry, search and seizure) is to have effect as if references to serious arrestable offences indictable offences in Article 10 of, and Schedule 1 to, that Order included any conduct which—\n(a) constitutes an offence under the law of a country outside the United Kingdom, and\n(b) would, if it occurred in Northern Ireland, constitute a serious arrestable offence an indictable offence .\n(4) But an application for a warrant or order by virtue of subsection (3) may be made only—\n(a) in pursuance of a direction given under section 13, or\n(b) if it is an application for a warrant or order under Article 10 of, or Schedule 1 to, that Order, by a constable for the purposes of an investigation by an international joint investigation team of which he is a member.\n(5) In this section, “international joint investigation team” has the meaning given by section 88(7) of the Police Act 1996 (c. 16).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(1) substituted (1.1.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 7 para. 51(2)(a); S.I. 2005/3495, art. 2(1)(m)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(1)(b) substituted (1.1.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 7 para. 51(2)(b); S.I. 2005/3495, art. 2(1)(m)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(3) substituted (N.I.) (1.3.2007) by The Police and Criminal Evidence (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/288), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 37(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(3)(b) substituted (N.I.) (1.3.2007) by The Police and Criminal Evidence (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/288), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 37(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 16 functions of a constable made exercisable by a customs officer (E.W.N.I.) (23.3.2005) by Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (Exercise of Functions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/425), arts. 1(1), 9, 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 26.4.2004 by S.I. 2004/786, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/32/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:00.442245+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."
}