Article 2 Amendment of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000

Schedule 6 to the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (which specifies trigger offences for the purposes of section 70 of the Act) shall be amended as follows.

In paragraph 1, after “section 15 (obtaining property by deception)”, insert “section 22 (handling stolen goods)”.

After paragraph 2, insert

“3

An offence under section 1(1) of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981^f1 is a trigger offence, if committed in respect of an offence under any of the following provisions of the Theft Act 1968^f2:

• section 1 (theft)

• section 8 (robbery)

• section 9 (burglary)

• section 15 (obtaining property by deception)

• section 22 (handling stolen goods).

4.

Offences under the following provisions of the Vagrancy Act 1824^f3 are trigger offences:

• section 3 (begging)

• section 4 (persistent begging).”