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The Serious Crime Act 2007 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2008

S.I. 2008/2504 · Made 24 September 2008

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Criminal Law, England And Wales

Criminal Law, Northern Ireland

Disclosure Of Information

Made 24th September 2008

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 94(1) of the Serious Crime Act 2007f1:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2007 c. 27.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1

This Order may be cited as the Serious Crime Act 2007 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2008.

2

The following provisions of the Serious Crime Act 2007 shall come into force on 1st October 2008—

(a)

Part 2 (encouraging and assisting crime) together with Schedules 3 (listed offences), 4 (extra-territoriality), 5 (amendments relating to service law) and 6 (minor and consequential amendments);

(b)

section 68(1) to (7) (disclosure of information to prevent fraud);

(c)

sections 69 and 70 (offence for certain further disclosures of information and penalty for that offence);

(d)

section 71(3) and (6) (code of practice for disclosure of information to prevent fraud);

(e)

section 72 (data protection rules);

(f)

section 91(1) (transitional and transitory provisions and savings) in so far as it relates to the provisions in sub-paragraph (g);

(g)

paragraphs 5, 6 and 8 of Schedule 13 (transitional and transitory provisions and savings);

(h)

section 92 (repeals and revocation) in so far as it relates to the entries in Schedule 14 in sub-paragraph (i); and

(i)

in Schedule 14 (repeals and revocation) the entries relating to—

(i)

the Criminal Law Act 1977f1;

(ii)

the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980f2;

(iii)

the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981f3;

(iv)

the Criminal Attempts and Conspiracy (Northern Ireland) Order 1983f4;

(v)

the Public Order Act 1986f5;

(vi)

the Computer Misuse Act 1990f6;

(vii)

the International Criminal Court Act 2001f7; and

(viii)

the Police and Justice Act 2006f8.

Signature

Vernon Coaker

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Home Office

24th September 2008

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force the provisions of the Serious Crime Act 2007 set out in article 2 on 1st October 2008.