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2015
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Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9)
Introductory Text
Part 1 Proceeds of crime (ss. 1-40)
Chapter 1 England and wales (ss. 1-14)
Confiscation: assets held by defendant and other (ss. 1-4)
1. Determination of extent of defendant's interest in property
2. Provision of information
3. Appeals
4. Enforcement receivers
Confiscation: other amendments (ss. 5-14)
5. Time for payment
6. Confiscation and victim surcharge orders
7. Orders for securing compliance with confiscation order
8. Variation or discharge
9. Absconding defendants
10. Default sentences
11. Conditions for exercise of restraint order powers
12. Continuation of restraint order after quashed conviction
13. Conditions for exercise of search and seizure powers
14. Seized money etc
Chapter 2 Scotland (ss. 15-23)
Confiscation (ss. 15-22)
15. Restitution order and victim surcharge
16. Orders for securing compliance with confiscation order
17. Compliance orders: appeals by prosecutor
18. Accused persons unlawfully at large
19. Enforcement of confiscation orders
20. Conditions for exercise of restraint order powers
21. Continuation of restraint order after conviction quashed or verdict set aside
22. Conditions for exercise of search and seizure powers
Civil recovery (s. 23)
23. Prohibitory property orders: PPO receivers
Chapter 3 Northern Ireland (ss. 24-36)
Confiscation: assets held by defendant and other (ss. 24-27)
24. Determination of extent of defendant's interest in property
25. Provision of information
26. Appeals
27. Enforcement receivers
Confiscation: other amendments (ss. 28-36)
28. Time for payment
29. Orders for securing compliance with confiscation order
30. Variation or discharge
31. Absconding defendants
32. Default sentences
33. Conditions for exercise of restraint order powers
34. Continuation of restraint order after quashed conviction
35. Conditions for exercise of search and seizure powers
36. Seized money etc
Chapter 4 Disclosures, investigations, co-operation and enforcement (ss. 37-40)
37. Exemption from civil liability for money-laundering disclosures
38. Confiscation investigations
39. External orders and investigations: meaning of "obtaining property"
40. Confiscation orders by magistrates' courts
Part 2 Computer misuse (ss. 41-44)
41. Unauthorised acts causing, or creating risk of, serious damage
42. Obtaining articles for purposes relating to computer misuse
43. Territorial scope of computer misuse offence
44. Savings
Part 3 Organised, serious and gang-related crime (ss. 45-51)
Organised crime groups (s. 45)
45. Offence of participating in activities of organised crime group
Serious crime prevention orders (ss. 46-50)
46. Extension of Part 1 of Serious Crime Act 2007 to Scotland
47. Serious crime prevention orders: meaning of "serious offence"
48. Powers of Crown Court to replace orders on breach
49. Extension of order where person charged
50. Serious crime prevention orders and financial reporting etc
Gang injunctions (s. 51)
51. Injunctions to prevent gang-related violence and drug-dealing activity
Part 4 Seizure and forfeiture of drug-cutting agents (ss. 52-65)
Warrants (ss. 52-54)
52. Applications for search and seizure warrants
53. Further provisions about search and seizure warrants
54. Execution of search and seizure warrants
Seizure (ss. 55-58)
55. Seizure of substances under search and seizure warrant
56. Seizure of substances without search and seizure warrant
57. Notice to be given where substances seized
58. Containers
Retention of seized substances (ss. 59-60)
59. Initial retention of seized substances
60. Continued retention or return of seized substances
Forfeiture etc or return of seized substances (ss. 61-63)
61. Forfeiture and disposal, or return, of seized substances
62. Appeal against decision under section 61
63. Return of substance to person entitled to it, or disposal if return impracticable
Supplementary (ss. 64-65)
64. Compensation
65. Interpretation etc
Part 5 Protection of children and others (ss. 66-77)
Protection of children (ss. 66-69)
66. Child cruelty offence
67. Sexual communication with a child
68. Child sexual exploitation
69. Possession of paedophile manual
Female genital mutilation (ss. 70-75)
70. Offence of female genital mutilation: extra-territorial acts
71. Anonymity for victims of female genital mutilation
72. Offence of failing to protect girl from risk of genital mutilation
73. Female genital mutilation protection orders
74. Duty to notify police of female genital mutilation
75. Guidance about female genital mutilation
Strangulation or suffocation (ss. 75A-75B)
75A. Strangulation or suffocation
75B. Offences under section 75A committed outside the United Kingdom
Domestic abuse (ss. 76-77)
76. Controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship
76A. Offences under section 76 committed outside the United Kingdom
77. Guidance about investigation of offences under section 76
Part 6 Miscellaneous and general (ss. 78-89)
Miscellaneous (ss. 78-84)
78. Knives and offensive weapons in prisons
79. Throwing articles into prisons
80. Prevention or restriction of use of communication devices by prisoners etc
81. Preparation or training abroad for terrorism
80A. Prevention or restriction of use of communication devices for drug dealing
82. Approval of draft decisions under Article 352 of TFEU relating to serious crime
83. Codes of practice about investigatory powers: journalistic sources
84. Termination of pregnancy on grounds of sex of foetus
General (ss. 85-89)
85. Minor and consequential amendments
86. Transitional and saving provisions
87. Extent
88. Commencement
89. Short title
Schedule 1 Amendments of Serious Crime Act 2007: Scotland
Schedule 2 Execution of search and seizure warrants
Schedule 3 Paedophile manuals: Providers of information society services
Schedule 4 Minor and consequential amendments
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Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9)
Part 6 Miscellaneous and general (ss. 78-89)
Miscellaneous (ss. 78-84)
82. Approval of draft decisions under Article 352 of TFEU relating to serious crime
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