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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order sets out the Secretary of State’s objectives for the National Crime Squad. These objectives replace those set out in the National Crime Squad (Secretary of State’s Objectives) Order 1998, which is revoked by this Order. Section 48(5)(a) of the Police Act 1997 requires the NCS Authority to have regard to these objectives in the discharge of its functions. Section 50 of the 1997 Act requires the NCS Authority to issue a service plan which must give particulars of these objectives.