{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-property-act-1897/section-2A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-property-act-1897/section-2A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/60-61/30",
  "legislation_title": "Police (Property) Act 1897",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-property-act-1897",
  "path": "section/2A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": "Application to the National Crime Agency",
  "text": "(1) This Act applies to property which has come into the possession of the National Crime Agency as it applies to property that has come into the possession of the police.\n(2) In relation to property that has come into the possession of the National Crime Agency —\n(a) the reference in section 1(1) to an officer of police is a reference to a National Crime Agency officer ; and\n(b) references in section 2 to the property remaining in the possession of the police are references to its remaining in the possession of that Agency.\n(3) The power to make regulations under section 2 has effect in relation to property that has come into the possession of the National Crime Agency as if—\n(a) the relevant authority for the purposes of subsection (2A) of that section were that Agency; and\n(b) the reference in subsection (2A)(c) of that section to police purposes were a reference to the purposes of that Agency.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (N.I.) (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 32, s. 74(3), Sch. 6 (with Sch. 5 para. 1); S.R. 1999/176, art. 3 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 2A inserted (1.10.2002) by 2002 c. 30, s. 77(1); S.I. 2002/2306, art. 2(d)(viii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 2A(1) substituted (7.10.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(2), Sch. 8 para. 15(3); S.I. 2013/1682, art. 3(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 2A(2) substituted (7.10.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(2), Sch. 8 para. 15(4)(a); S.I. 2013/1682, art. 3(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 2A(2)(a) substituted (7.10.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(2), Sch. 8 para. 15(4)(b); S.I. 2013/1682, art. 3(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in s. 2A(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 4 para. 2(3)(b); S.I. 2006/378, art. 4(1), Sch. para. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 2A(3) substituted (7.10.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(2), Sch. 8 para. 15(5); S.I. 2013/1682, art. 3(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 2A(3)(a) substituted (1.4.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 4 para. 2(4)(a); S.I. 2006/378, art. 4(1), Sch. para. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in s. 2A(3)(b) substituted (1.4.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 4 para. 2(4)(b); S.I. 2006/378, art. 4(1), Sch. para. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 2A substituted (7.10.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(2), Sch. 8 para. 15(2); S.I. 2013/1682, art. 3(v)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/60-61/30/section/2A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:28:24.095976+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."
}