{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007/section-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007/section-44.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/27",
  "legislation_title": "Serious Crime Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007",
  "path": "section/44",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Intentionally encouraging or assisting an offence",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if—\n(a) he does an act capable of encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence; and\n(b) he intends to encourage or assist its commission.\n(2) But he is not to be taken to have intended to encourage or assist the commission of an offence merely because such encouragement or assistance was a foreseeable consequence of his act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 restricted by 2007 c. 19, s. 18(1A) (as inserted (1.10.2008) by Serious Crime Act 2007 (c. 27), ss. 62, 94(1) (with Sch. 13 para. 5); S.I. 2008/2504, art. 2(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 44 in force at 1.10.2008 by S.I. 2008/2504, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/27/section/44",
    "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."
}