{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007/section-89",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007/section-89.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/27",
  "legislation_title": "Serious Crime Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007",
  "path": "section/89",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "89",
  "heading": "Orders and regulations",
  "text": "(1) Any power of the Secretary of Stateor the Treasury to make an order or regulations under this Act is exercisable by statutory instrument.\n(2) Any power of the Secretary of State , the Treasury or the Scottish Ministers to make an order or regulations under this Act—\n(a) may be exercised so as to make different provision for different cases or descriptions of case or different purposes;\n(b) includes power to make such supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision as the Secretary of State or (as the case may be) the Treasury considers appropriateor the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate.\n(3) No order is to be made by statutory instrument under section 4(4), 49(6), 63(3), 69 or 90, or paragraph 102 of Schedule 8, unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.\nA statutory instrument containing an order or regulations under any of the following provisions may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament—\nsection 4(4);\nsection 49(6);\nsection 63(3);\nsection 69;\nsection 90;\nparagraph 2(5)(j) of Schedule 1A;\nparagraph 102 of Schedule 8.\n(4) Subsection (3) does not apply to an order under section 90 which does not amend or repeal any provision of an Act.\n(5) An order under section 90 which does not amend or repeal any provision of an Act is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(6) An order made by the Secretary of State or the Treasury under section 7(1), 24(9), 27(6) or (12),, 27A(7) 28(6) ..., 29, 33, 40, 68 or 85 is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(6A) An order under section 4(4A) is subject to the affirmative procedure.\n(6B) An order made by the Scottish Ministers under section 7(1A), 27A(7) or (12), 29(1ZA) or (3ZA) or 40 is subject to the negative procedure.\n(7) Any power of the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland to make an order under this Act is exercisable by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979.\n(8) Any power of the Department of Justice to make an order under this Act—\n(a) may be exercised so as to make different provision for different cases or descriptions of case or different purposes;\n(b) includes power to make such supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision as the Department considers appropriate.\n(9) No order is to be made by the Department of Justice under section 4(5), 49(6) or 63(4) unless a draft of it has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n(10) Section 41(3) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 applies for the purposes of subsection (9) in relation to the laying of a draft as it applies in relation to the laying of a statutory document under an enactment.\n(11) An order made by the Department of Justice under section 7(2), 24(9), 28(6) or (11), 29 or 40 is subject to negative resolution (within the meaning of section 41(6) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 89(1) substituted (1.3.2016) by Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9), s. 88(1), Sch. 1 para. 29(a); S.I. 2016/148, reg. 3(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 89(1)(2) inserted (2.12.2025 for specified purposes) by Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 (c. 31), ss. 55(6)(b), 65(3)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 89(2) substituted (1.3.2016) by Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9), s. 88(1), Sch. 1 para. 29(b)(i); S.I. 2016/148, reg. 3(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 89(2) inserted (1.3.2016) by Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9), s. 88(1), Sch. 1 para. 29(b)(ii); S.I. 2016/148, reg. 3(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 89(3) substituted (2.12.2025 for specified purposes) by Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 (c. 31), ss. 58(7), 65(3)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 89(3) inserted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), Sch. 10 para. 10(2) (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 89(6) inserted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), Sch. 10 para. 10(3)(a) (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 89(6) substituted (1.3.2016) by Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9), s. 88(1), Sch. 1 para. 29(c)(i); S.I. 2016/148, reg. 3(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 89(6) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), Sch. 10 para. 10(3)(b) (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in s. 89(6) inserted (1.3.2016) by Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9), s. 88(1), Sch. 1 para. 29(c)(ii); S.I. 2016/148, reg. 3(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 89(6) omitted (12.4.2010) by virtue of The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), Sch. 10 para. 10(3)(c) (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "S. 89(6A)(6B) inserted (1.3.2016) by Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9), s. 88(1), Sch. 1 para. 29(d); S.I. 2016/148, reg. 3(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "S. 89(7)-(11) inserted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), Sch. 10 para. 10(4) (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in s. 89 heading inserted (2.12.2025 for specified purposes) by Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 (c. 31), ss. 55(6)(a), 65(3)(f)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/27/section/89",
    "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."
}