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 that Act) shall be amended as follows.

For the paragraph 3 inserted by the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (Amendment) Order 2004^f1, substitute—

“3A.

An offence under section 1(1) of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981^f2 is a trigger offence, if committed in respect of an offence under—

(a)

any of the following provisions of the Theft Act 1968^f3:

section 1 (theft)

section 8 (robbery)

section 9 (burglary)

section 22 (handling stolen goods), or

(b)

section 1 of the Fraud Act 2006^f4 (fraud).”