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1.—(1) In section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (powers of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office)(1)—
(a)in subsection (1A), for paragraph (b) substitute—
“(b)the Secretary of State, acting—
(i)under section 15(2) of the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003, in response to a request received from a person mentioned in section 13(2) of that Act, or
(ii)under regulation 51 of the Criminal Justice (European Investigation Order) Regulations 2017, on a referral under that regulation of a European investigation order issued by an authority in a participating State (within the meaning of Part 3 of those Regulations).”;
(b)for subsection (18) substitute—
“(18) In this section—
“documents” includes information recorded in any form and, in relation to information recorded otherwise than in legible form, references to its production include references to producing a copy of the information in legible form;
“evidence”, in relation to subsections (1B), (8A) and (8C) above, includes documents and other articles;
“overseas authority” means a person mentioned in subsection (1A)(b)(i) or an authority mentioned in subsection (1A)(b)(ii).”.
1987 c. 38; section 2 was amended by section 143 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33), by section 164(2) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33) and by paragraph 12 of Schedule 5 to the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003.
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