Serious Crime Act 2007 (c. 27)

Version status: Partly in force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes

Published date: 30 October 2007

Serious Crime Act 2007 (c. 27)

	Introductory Text
	Part 1 Serious crime prevention orders (ss. 1-43)
	General (ss. 1-5A)
	1. Serious crime prevention orders
	2. Involvement in serious crime: England and Wales orders
	2A. Involvement in serious crime: Scotland orders
	3. Involvement in serious crime: Northern Ireland orders
	4. Involvement in serious crime: supplementary
	5. Type of provision that may be made by orders
	5A. Verification and disclosure of information
	General safeguards in relation to orders (ss. 6-10)
	6. Any individual must be 18 or over
	7. Other exceptions
	8. Limited class of applicants for making of orders
	8A. Serious crime prevention orders that are terrorism-related
	9. Right of third parties to make representations
	10. Notice requirements in relation to orders
	Information safeguards (ss. 11-15)
	11. Restrictions on oral answers
	12. Restrictions for legal professional privilege
	13. Restrictions on excluded material and banking information
	14. Restrictions relating to other enactments
	15. Restrictions on use of information obtained
	Duration, variation and discharge of orders (ss. 16-18)
	16. Duration of orders
	17. Variation of orders
	18. Discharge of orders
	Extension of jurisdiction to Crown Court (ss. 19-22)
	19. Orders by Crown Court on conviction
	20. Powers of Crown Court to vary orders on conviction
	21. Powers of Crown Court to vary or replace orders on breach
	22. Inter-relationship between different types of orders in England and Wales or Northern Ireland
	Extension of jurisdiction: Scotland (ss. 22A-22D)
	22A. Orders by High Court of Justiciary and sheriff on conviction
	22B. Powers of High Court of Justiciary and sheriff to vary orders on conviction
	22C. Powers of High Court of Justiciary and sheriff to vary or replace orders on breach
	22D. Inter-relationship between different types of orders in Scotland
	Powers to extend orders where person charged (s. 22E)
	22E. Extension of orders pending outcome of criminal proceedings
	Appeals (ss. 23-24B)
	23. Additional right of appeal from High Court
	24. Appeals from Crown Court
	24A. Additional right of appeal from Court of Session
	24B. Appeals from High Court of Justiciary and sheriff
	Enforcement (ss. 25-29)
	25. Offence of failing to comply with order
	26. Powers of forfeiture in respect of offence
	27. Powers to wind up companies etc: England and Wales
	27A. Powers to wind up companies etc: Scotland
	28. Powers to wind up companies etc: Northern Ireland
	29. Powers to wind up: supplementary
	Particular types of persons (ss. 30-34)
	30. Bodies corporate including limited liability partnerships
	31. Other partnerships
	32. Unincorporated associations
	33. Overseas bodies
	34. Providers of information society services
	Supplementary (ss. 35-41)
	35. Proceedings in the High Court
	36. Proceedings in the Crown Court
	36A. Proceedings in the High Court of Justiciary and sheriff court
	37. Functions of applicant authorities
	38. Disclosure of information in accordance with orders
	39. Compliance with orders: authorised monitors
	40. Costs in relation to authorised monitors
	41. Powers of law enforcement officers to retain documents
	Interpretation: Part 1 (ss. 42-43)
	42. Interpretation: Part 1
	43. Index of defined expressions: Part 1
	Part 2 Encouraging or assisting crime (ss. 44-67)
	Inchoate offences (ss. 44-49)
	44. Intentionally encouraging or assisting an offence
	45. Encouraging or assisting an offence believing it will be committed
	46. Encouraging or assisting offences believing one or more will be committed
	47. Proving an offence under this Part
	48. Proving an offence under section 46
	49. Supplemental provisions
	Defences (ss. 50-50A)
	50. Defence of acting reasonably
	50A. Extra-territorial offences: defence for intelligence services and armed forces
	Limitation on liability (ss. 51-51A)
	51. Protective offences: victims not liable
	51A. Exceptions to section 44 for encouraging or assisting suicide or serious self-harm
	Jurisdiction and procedure (ss. 52-58)
	52. Jurisdiction
	53. Prosecution of offences triable by reason of Schedule 4
	54. Institution of proceedings etc. for an offence under this Part
	55. Mode of trial
	56. Persons who may be perpetrators or encouragers etc.
	57. Alternative verdicts and guilty pleas
	58. Penalties
	Consequential alterations of the law (ss. 59-63)
	59. Abolition of common law replaced by this Part
	60. Amendments relating to service law
	61. Repeal of offence of enabling unauthorised access to computer material
	62. No individual liability in respect of corporate manslaughter
	63. Consequential amendments: Part 2
	Interpretation: Part 2 (ss. 64-67)
	64. Encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence
	65. Being capable of encouraging or assisting
	66. Indirectly encouraging or assisting
	67. Course of conduct
	Part 3 Other measures to prevent or disrupt serious and other crime (ss. 68-88)
	Chapter 1 Prevention of fraud (ss. 68-73)
	Sharing information with anti-fraud organisations (ss. 68-72)
	68. Disclosure of information to prevent fraud
	69. Offence for certain further disclosures of information
	70. Penalty and prosecution for offence under section 69
	71. Code of practice for disclosure of information to prevent fraud
	72. Data protection rules
	Data matching (s. 73)
	73. Data matching
	Chapter 2 Proceeds of crime (ss. 74-86)
	Assets Recovery Agency (s. 74)
	74. Abolition of Assets Recovery Agency and redistribution of functions etc.
	Detained cash investigations: use of production orders and warrants (ss. 75-77)
	75. Use of production orders for detained cash investigations
	76. Use of search warrants etc. for detained cash investigations
	77. Further provision about detained cash investigations
	Extension of powers of accredited financial investigators (ss. 78-81)
	78. Powers to seize property to which restraint orders apply
	79. Powers to recover cash
	80. Powers in relation to certain investigations
	81. Supplementary provision in relation to new powers
	Miscellaneous (ss. 82-86)
	82. Powers of management receivers and enforcement receivers
	83. Civil recovery management receivers
	84. Powers for prosecutors to appear in cash recovery proceedings
	85. Disclosure of information by Revenue and Customs
	86. Use of force in executing search warrants: Scotland
	Chapter 3 Other measures (ss. 87-88)
	87. Incidents involving serious violence: powers to stop and search
	88. Extension of investigatory powers of Revenue and Customs
	Part 4 General and final provisions (ss. 89-95)
	General (ss. 89-92)
	89. Orders
	90. Supplementary, incidental and consequential provision
	91. Transitional and transitory provisions and savings
	92. Repeals and revocations
	Final (ss. 93-95)
	93. Extent
	94. Commencement
	95. Short title
	Schedule 1 Serious offences
	Schedule 1, Part 1 Serious offences in England and Wales (paras. 1-16)
	Schedule 1, Part 1A Serious offences In Scotland (paras. 16A-16P)
	Schedule 1, Part 2 Serious offences in Northern Ireland (paras. 17-32)
	Schedule 2 Functions of applicant authorities under Part 1
	Schedule 3 Listed Offences
	Schedule 3, Part 1 Offences common to England and Wales and Northern Ireland (paras. 1-24A)
	Schedule 3, Part 2 Offences under particular enactments: England and Wales (paras. 25-38A)
	Schedule 3, Part 3 Other offences: England and Wales (paras. 39-40)
	Schedule 3, Part 4 Offences under particular enactments: Northern Ireland (paras. 41-49)
	Schedule 3, Part 5 Other offences: Northern Ireland (para. 50)
	Schedule 4 Extra-territoriality
	Schedule 5 Amendments relating to service law
	Schedule 6 Minor and consequential amendments: Part 2
	Schedule 6, Part 1 References to common law offence of incitement (paras. 1-52)
	Schedule 6, Part 2 Other minor and consequential amendments (paras. 53-64)
	Schedule 7 Data matching
	Schedule 7, Part 1 Data matching: England (paras. 1-3)
	Schedule 7, Part 2 Data matching: Wales (paras. 4-5)
	Schedule 7, Part 3 Data matching: Northern Ireland (paras. 6-7)
	Schedule 8 Abolition of Assets Recovery Agency and its Director
	Schedule 8, Part 1 Abolition of confiscation functions (paras. 1-84)
	Schedule 8, Part 2 Transfer of civil recovery functions (paras. 85-91)
	Schedule 8, Part 3 Transfer or abolition of Revenue functions (paras. 92-102)
	Schedule 8, Part 4 Transfer of investigation functions (paras. 103-119)
	Schedule 8, Part 5 Transfer of accreditation and training functions (para. 120)
	Schedule 8, Part 6 Other amendments to 2002 Act (paras. 121-142)
	Schedule 8, Part 7 Amendments to other enactments (paras. 143-178)
	Schedule 9 Transfers to SOCA or NPIA
	Schedule 10 Detained cash investigations: further provision
	Schedule 11 Powers to recover cash: financial investigators
	Schedule 12 Revenue and Customs: regulation of investigatory powers
	Schedule 13 Transitional and transitory provisions and savings
	Schedule 14 Repeals and revocations