The Serious Crime Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2015

Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 1809 (C. 112)

Criminal Law, England And Wales

The Serious Crime Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2015

Made

20th October 2015

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred by section 88(1) of the Serious Crime Act 2015(1), makes the following Regulations.

Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Serious Crime Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2015.

(2) In these Regulations “the 2015 Act” means the Serious Crime Act 2015.

Provisions coming into force on 31st October 2015

2.  The following provisions of the 2015 Act come into force on 31st October 2015—

(a) section 74 (duty to notify police of female genital mutilation);

(b) section 75 (guidance about female genital mutilation);

(c) section 85(1) (minor and consequential amendments), for the purposes of paragraph 60 of Schedule 4 (minor and consequential amendments); and

(d) paragraph 60 of Schedule 4.

Provision coming into force on 10th November 2015

3.  Section 79 of the 2015 Act (throwing articles into prisons) comes into force on 10th November 2015.

Karen Bradley

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

20th October 2015

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are the third commencement regulations made under the Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9) (“the 2015 Act”).

Regulation 2 brings into force on 31st October 2015 sections 74 and 75 of the 2015 Act, which insert new sections 5B and 5C into the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 (c. 31) to create a duty to notify the police of female genital mutilation in England and Wales. Regulation 2 also brings into force on the same day the consequential amendment in paragraph 60 of Schedule 4 to the 2015 Act that relates to these provisions.

Regulation 3 brings into force on 10th November 2015 section 79 of the 2015 Act which inserts a new section 40CB into the Prison Act 1952 (c. 52), making it a criminal offence for a person, without authorisation, to throw any article or substance into a prison. The reference to “throwing” includes doing anything from outside the prison that results in the article or substance being projected or conveyed over or through a boundary of the prison so as to land inside the prison.

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT REGULATIONS

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The following provisions of the Act have been brought into force to their fullest extent (unless indicated otherwise) by commencement regulations made before the date of these Regulations:

Provision	Date of Commencement	S.I. No. or *S.R. No.
Sections 1 to 4	01.06.2015	2015/820
Section 5	01.06.2015	2015/820
Section 6	01.06.2015	2015/820
Section 7	01.06.2015	2015/820
Section 8	01.06.2015	2015/820
Section 9	01.06.2015	2015/820
Section 10	01.06.2015	2015/820
Section 11	01.06.2015	2015/820
Section 12	01.06.2015	2015/820
Section 14	01.06.2015	2015/820
Section 24	01.06.2015	2015/190*
Section 25	01.06.2015	2015/190*
Section 26	01.06.2015	2015/190*
Section 27	01.06.2015	2015/190*
Section 28	01.06.2015	2015/190*
Section 29	01.06.2015	2015/190*
Section 30	01.06.2015	2015/190*
Section 31	01.06.2015	2015/190*
Section 32	01.06.2015	2015/190*
Section 33	01.06.2015	2015/190*
Section 34	01.06.2015	2015/190*
Section 35	01.06.2015	2015/190*
Section 36	01.06.2015	2015/190*
Section 37	01.06.2015	2015/820
Section 39	01.06.2015	2015/820
Section 40	01.06.2015	2015/820
Section 41	03.05.2015	2015/820
Section 42	03.05.2015	2015/820
Section 43	03.05.2015	2015/820
Section 44	03.05.2015	2015/820
Section 45	03.05.2015	2015/820
Section 47	03.05.2015	2015/820
Section 48	03.05.2015	2015/820
Section 49	03.05.2015	2015/820
Section 50 (partially)	03.05.2015	2015/820
Section 51	01.06.2015	2015/820
Sections 52 to 65	03.05.2015	2015/820
Section 66	03.05.2015	2015/820
Section 68	03.05.2015	2015/820
Section 69	03.05.2015	2015/820
Section 73	17.07.2015	2015/1428
Section 78	01.06.2015	2015/820
Section 84	03.05.2015	2015/820
Section 85(1)(partially)	03.05.2015	2015/820
Section 85(1)(partially)	01.06.2015	2015/820
Section 85(1)(partially)	17.07.2015	2015/1428
Section 85(1)(partially)	03.05.2015	2015/190*
Section 85(1)(partially)	01.06.2015	2015/190*
Schedule 2	03.05.2015	2015/820
Schedule 3	03.05.2015	2015/820
Schedule 4 (partially)	03.05.2015	2015/820
Schedule 4 (partially)	03.05.2015	2015/190*
Schedule 4 (partially)	01.06.2015	2015/190*
Schedule 4 (partially)	17.07.2015	2015/1428

(1)

2015 c. 9.