{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007/section-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007/section-65.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/27",
  "legislation_title": "Serious Crime Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007",
  "path": "section/65",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Being capable of encouraging or assisting",
  "text": "(1) A reference in this Part to a person's doing an act that is capable of encouraging the commission of an offence includes a reference to his doing so by threatening another person or otherwise putting pressure on another person to commit the offence.\n(2) A reference in this Part to a person's doing an act that is capable of encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence includes a reference to his doing so by—\n(a) taking steps to reduce the possibility of criminal proceedings being brought in respect of that offence;\n(b) failing to take reasonable steps to discharge a duty.\n(3) But a person is not to be regarded as doing an act that is capable of encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence merely because he fails to respond to a constable's request for assistance in preventing a breach of the peace.",
  "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. 65 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/65",
    "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."
}