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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007-commencement-no1-order-2008/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/219",
  "legislation_title": "The Serious Crime Act 2007 (Commencement No.1) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007-commencement-no1-order-2008",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following provisions of the Act shall come into force on 1st March 2008—\n(a) section 24(9) and (10) (order making powers relating to appeals procedure);\n(b) section 37 (functions of applicant authorities) in so far as it relates to the provisions in paragraph (c);\n(c) paragraphs 4 and 18 of Schedule 2 (Code for Crown Prosecutors and Code for Public Prosecutors);\n(d) section 40(1), (2) and (4) (order making powers relating to authorised monitors);\n(e) section 68(8) (interpretation and power to specify an anti-fraud organisation);\n(f) section 71(1), (2), (4) and (5) (code of practice for disclosure of information to prevent fraud);\n(g) section 73 (data matching) in so far as it relates to the provisions in paragraphs (h) to (j);\n(h) paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 7 in so far as they insert new section 32G(1), (3) and (4) of the Audit Commission Act 1998 (code of data matching practice);\n(i) paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 in so far as it inserts new section 64G(1), (3) and (4) of the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (code of data matching practice);\n(j) paragraph 6 of Schedule 7 in so far as it inserts new Article 4G(1), (3) and (4) of the Audit and Accountability (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (code of data matching practice);\n(k) section 74(1) (order making power relating to the abolition of the Assets Recovery Agency);\n(l) section 74(2)(d) and (g) (transfer of investigation functions and amendments to other enactments) in so far as it relates to the provisions in paragraphs (m) and (n);\n(m) paragraph 115 of Schedule 8 in so far as it inserts new section 377A(1) to (5) and (10) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (code of practice of Attorney General or Advocate General for Northern Ireland);\n(n) paragraph 169 of Schedule 8 (new section 2A of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005) for the purpose of the preparation of the Serious Organised Crime Agency’s annual plan under section 6 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 for the financial year commencing 1st April 2008; and\n(o) section 74(3) together with Schedule 9 (transfers to the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the National Policing Improvement Agency).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2004 c. 23."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/418 (N.I. 5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2002 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2005 c. 15."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/219/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:37:16.576620+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."
}