{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/44",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part 3",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“authorised person” has the meaning given by section 22(4),\n“conditional caution” has the meaning given by section 22(2),\n“investigating officer” means an officer of Revenue and Customs, appointed in accordance with section 2(1) of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005, or a person designated as a policing support officer or a policing support volunteer under section 38 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30),\n“the offender” has the meaning given by section 22(1),\n“relevant prosecutor” means—\n(a)the Attorney General,\n(b)the Director of the Serious Fraud Office,\n(ba)...\n(c)the Director of Public Prosecutions,\n(d)a Secretary of State,\n(e). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(f). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(g)a person who is specified in an order made by the Secretary of State as being a relevant prosecutor for the purposes of this Part.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 27 inserted (18.4.2005) by Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11), ss. 50(6), 53, Sch. 4 para. 129(a); S.I. 2005/1126, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 27 substituted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 15.12.2017 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 12 para. 16(2); S.I. 2017/1139, reg. 2(k) (as amended by S.I 2017/1162, reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 27 omitted (27.3.2014) by virtue of The Public Bodies (Merger of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/834), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 38"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 27 repealed (18.4.2005) by Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11), ss. 50(6), 52(2), 53, Sch. 4 para. 129(b), Sch. 5; S.I. 2005/1126, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 27 wholly in force; s. 27 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 336(3); s. 27 in force for certain purposes at 3.7.2004 by S.I. 2004/1629, art. 2; s. 27 wholly in force at 16.11.2009 by S.I. 2009/2775, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/44/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:40.404644+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."
}