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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-and-savings-order-2008/article-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/755",
  "legislation_title": "The Serious Crime Act 2007 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Savings) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-and-savings-order-2008",
  "path": "article/9",
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  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Disclosure orders",
  "text": "(1) A member of SOCA’s staff may apply for a disclosure order in relation to a confiscation investigation which is treated by virtue of article 3(2) to (4) as having been commenced by a member of SOCA’s staff (and, accordingly, the amendments made by paragraph 108(1), (2), (3) and (7) of Schedule 8 to the 2007 Act do not apply in such cases).\n(2) A member of SOCA’s staff may apply to vary or discharge a disclosure order made before 1st April 2008 in relation to a confiscation investigation carried out by the Director (and, accordingly, the amendments made by paragraph 110(1) and (2) of Schedule 8 to the 2007 Act do not apply in such cases).\n(3) Paragraphs (2) to (5) of article 3 apply to—\n(a) functions transferred by virtue of paragraph (1) or (2); and\n(b) functions in relation to confiscation investigations transferred to a prosecutor (within the meaning given by section 357(8)(b), (c) or (d) of the 2002 Act) by paragraphs 108(1), (2), (3) and (7) and 110(1) and (2) of Schedule 8 to the 2007 Act;\nas they apply to the functions mentioned in paragraphs (2) and (3) of article 3 but as if, in the case of functions falling within sub-paragraph (b), the transferee were the prosecutor concerned.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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