Article 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 1977^f1;

(ii)

the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980^f2;

(iii)

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

(iv)

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

(v)

the Public Order Act 1986^f5;

(vi)

the Computer Misuse Act 1990^f6;

(vii)

the International Criminal Court Act 2001^f7; and

(viii)

the Police and Justice Act 2006^f8.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1977 c. 45.
f2: 1980 c. 43.
f3: S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26).
f4: S.I. 1983/1120 (N.I. 13).
f5: 1986 c. 64.
f6: 1990 c. 18.
f7: 2001 c. 17.
f8: 2006 c. 48.