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The Serious Crime Act 2007 (Specified Anti-fraud Organisations) Order 2014

S.I. 2014/1608 · Made 18 June 2014

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Disclosure Of Information

Made 18th June 2014

Laid before Parliament- 25th June 2014

Coming into force 21st July 2014

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 68(8) of the Serious Crime Act 2007f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2007 c. 27; section 68(5) and (6) were repealed by section 98(a) of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 13).

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Specified anti-fraud organisations
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Serious Crime Act 2007 (Specified Anti-fraud Organisations) Order 2014 and comes into force on 21st July 2014.

2Specified anti-fraud organisations

The following anti-fraud organisations are specified pursuant to section 68(8) of the Serious Crime Act 2007—

(a)

Callcredit Information Group Limitedf1;

(b)

BAE Systems Applied Intelligence Limitedf2;

(c)

Dun and Bradstreet Limitedf3;

(d)

Equifax Limitedf4;

(e)

Synectics Solutions Limitedf5.

Signature

Karen Bradley

Minister of State

Home Office

18th June 2014

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 68 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 (“the 2007 Act”) provides a power for a public authority to disclose information as a member of a specified anti-fraud organisation or otherwise in accordance with arrangements made by such an organisation, for the purposes of preventing fraud or a particular kind of fraud. An anti-fraud organisation is any unincorporated association, body corporate or other person which enables or facilitates any sharing of information to prevent fraud or a particular kind of fraud or which has any of these functions as its purpose or one of its purposes. Article 2 of this Order specifies five anti-fraud organisations for the purpose of section 68 of the 2007 Act.