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32. Unincorporated associations

(1) A serious crime prevention order against an unincorporated association must be made in the name of the association (and not in that of any of its members).

(2) An order made in the name of the association continues to have effect despite a change in the membership of the association provided that at least one of the persons who was a member of the association before the change remains a member after it.

(3) For the purposes of section 10 in its application to a serious crime prevention order against an unincorporated association or to the variation of such an order -

(a) a notice setting out the terms of the order or variation -

(i) is delivered to the association in person if it is delivered to an officer of the association in person; and

(ii) is sent by recorded delivery to the association at its last-known address if it is so sent to an officer of the association at the address of the principal office of the association in the United Kingdom; and

(b) the power conferred by subsection (3) of that section is a power to enter any premises where the person exercising the power has reasonable grounds for believing an officer of the association to be and to search those premises for the officer.