{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007/section-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007/section-43.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/27",
  "legislation_title": "Serious Crime Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007",
  "path": "section/43",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Index of defined expressions: Part 1",
  "text": "In this Part, the expressions listed in the left-hand column have the meaning given by, or are to be interpreted in accordance with, the provisions listed in the right-hand column.\nExpression\nProvision\nact\nsection 42\nappropriate court\nsection 1(5)\ncommitted a serious offence\nsection 4(1)\nconduct\nsection 42\nconducts oneself in a way likely to facilitate the commission by oneself or another person of a serious offence\nsection 4(3)\ncountry\nsection 42\nDirector of Public Prosecutions, ..., Director of the Serious Fraud Office and Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland\nParagraphs 2(2), ..., 13(2) and 17 of Schedule 2\ndocument\nsection 5(7)\nfacilitates the commission by another person of a serious offence\nsection 4(2)\ninvolvement in serious crime: England and Wales orders\nsections 2, 4 and 31(3)\ninvolvement in serious crime: Northern Ireland orders\nsections 3, 4 and 31(3)\ninvolvement in serious crime: Scotland orders\nsections 2A, 4 and 31(3)\nlaw enforcement officer\nsection 5(7)\nmodifications (and modify)\nsection 42\nperson who is the subject of a serious crime prevention order\nsection 1(6)\npremises\nsection 5(7)\nproduction of documents\nsection 5(8)\nthe public\nsection 42\nrelevant applicant authority\nsection 10(4)\nserious crime prevention order\nsection 1(5)\nserious offence in England and Wales\nsection 2(2)\nserious offence in Northern Ireland\nsection 3(2)\nserious offence in Scotland\nsection 2A(2)\nterrorism-related\nsection 8A",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 43 inserted (1.3.2016) by Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9), s. 88(1), Sch. 1 para. 28; S.I. 2016/148, reg. 3(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 43 omitted (27.3.2014) by virtue of The Public Bodies (Merger of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/834), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 49(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 43 omitted (27.3.2014) by virtue of The Public Bodies (Merger of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/834), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 49(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 43 inserted (29.6.2021) by Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021 (c. 11), s. 50(2)(t), Sch. 12 para. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 43 in force at 6.4.2008 by S.I. 2008/755, art. 15(1)(k)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2025/31",
      "affecting_title": "Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2025/31",
      "affecting_title": "Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/27/section/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:31.404406+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."
}