{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015-commencement-no-1-regulations-2015/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015-commencement-no-1-regulations-2015/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/820",
  "legislation_title": "The Serious Crime Act 2015 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015-commencement-no-1-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 1st June 2015",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Serious Crime Act 2015 come into force on 1st June 2015—\n(a) sections 1 to 4 (confiscation: assets held by defendant and other);\n(b) section 5 (time for payment);\n(c) section 6 (confiscation and victim surcharge orders);\n(d) section 7 (orders for securing compliance with confiscation order);\n(e) section 8 (variation or discharge);\n(f) section 9 (absconding defenders);\n(g) section 10 (default sentences);\n(h) section 11 (conditions for exercise of restraint order powers);\n(i) section 12 (continuation of restraint order after quashed conviction);\n(j) section 14 (seized money etc);\n(k) section 37 (exemption from civil liability for money-laundering disclosures);\n(l) section 39 (external orders and investigations: meaning of “obtaining property”);\n(m) section 40 (confiscation orders by magistrates’ courts);\n(n) section 51 (injunctions to prevent gang-related violence and drug-dealing activity);\n(o) section 78 (knives and offensive weapons in prisons);\n(p) section 85(1), for the purposes of the provisions listed in sub-paragraph (q) of this regulation; and\n(q) in Schedule 4—\n(i) paragraph 3;\n(ii) paragraph 6;\n(iii) paragraphs 19 to 34;\n(iv) paragraphs 52 to 54;\n(v) paragraphs 56 to 57;\n(vi) paragraph 59;\n(vii) paragraph 61;\n(viii) paragraph 67;\n(ix) paragraphs 83 to 86;\n(x) paragraph 87(1), (3) and (4); and\n(xi) paragraph 89.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/820/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:41:09.199883+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."
}