- Draft legislation
This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Forensic Science Service Trading Fund Order 1998 No. 3197
Article 2
The operations of the Home Department known as the Forensic Science Service are:
(a)the provision of scientific support to the investigation of crime and expert evidence to the courts;
(b)the exploitation of technical advances through research and development, and other means as appropriate, in the field of forensic science;
(c)the provision of services in wider markets, including outside the United Kingdom, relating to scientific support to the administration of justice;
(d)operations incidental, conducive or otherwise ancillary to the foregoing.
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