{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007/section-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007/section-71.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/27",
  "legislation_title": "Serious Crime Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007",
  "path": "section/71",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Code of practice for disclosure of information to prevent fraud",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must prepare, and keep under review, a code of practice with respect to the disclosure, for the purposes of preventing fraud or a particular kind of fraud, of information by public authorities as members of specified anti-fraud organisations or otherwise in accordance with any arrangements made by such organisations.\n(2) Before preparing or altering the code, the Secretary of State must consult—\n(a) any specified anti-fraud organisation;\n(b) the Information Commission; and\n(c) such other persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.\n(3) A public authority must have regard to the code in (or in connection with) disclosing information, for the purposes of preventing fraud or a particular kind of fraud, as a member of a specified anti-fraud organisation or otherwise in accordance with any arrangements made by such an organisation.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) The Secretary of State must—\n(a) lay a copy of the code, and of any alterations to it, before Parliament; and\n(b) from time to time publish the code as for the time being in force.\n(6) In this section—\n“information” and “public authority” have the same meaning as in section 68;\n“relevant public authority” has the meaning given by section 68(6); and\n“specified anti-fraud organisation” means any person which is a specified anti-fraud organisation for the purposes of section 68.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 71(2)(b) substituted (30.9.2026) by The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/386), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 14; S.I. 2026/1015, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 71(4) repealed (8.11.2021) by Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 13), ss. 98(c)(i), 206(1); S.S.I. 2021/355, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 71(6) repealed (S.) (8.11.2021) by Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 13), ss. 98(c)(ii), 206(1); S.S.I. 2021/355, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 71(1)(2)(4)(5) in force at 1.3.2008 by S.I. 2008/219, art. 3(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 71(3)(6) in force at 1.10.2008 by S.I. 2008/2504, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/27/section/71",
    "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."
}