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The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

S.I. 2007/700 · Made 6 March 2007

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POLICE, england and wales

Made 6th March 2007

Laid before Parliament 9th March 2007

Coming into force 1st April 2007

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 113A(6) of the Police Act 1997f1, having regard to section 125(1) of that Act:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1997 c.50. Section 113A of the Police Act 1997 was inserted by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c.15), section 163(2).

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and extent
  2. 2Amendment of the 2002 Regulations
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and extent

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 1st April 2007.

(2)

These Regulations extend to England and Wales.

2Amendment of the 2002 Regulations

For regulation 9 (central records: prescribed details) of the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) Regulations 2002f1 substitute—

“Central records: prescribed details

9.

Information in any form relating to convictions, cautions, reprimands and warningsf2 on a names database held by the National Policing Improvement Agency for the use of constables is prescribed as “central records” for the purposes of section 113A(6) of the Police Act 1997 (including that provision as applied by sections 114(3)f3 and 116(3)f4).”.

Signature

Joan Ryan

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Home Office

6th March 2007

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 1st April 2007, amend the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) Regulations 2002 (“the 2002 Regulations”).

Regulation 2 substitutes Regulation 9 of the 2002 Regulations in order to replace the reference to the Police Information Technology Organisation with a reference to the National Policing Improvement Agency. The National Policing Improvement Agency takes over the function of running the Police National Computer from 1st April 2007 and it is that names database of convictions, cautions, reprimands and warnings which is prescribed as “central records” for the purpose of section 113A(6) of the Police Act 1997.