(1)In section 2 of the Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate Act 2000 (functions of the Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service), after subsection (3) there is inserted—
“(3A)This section applies to the Serious Fraud Office as it applies to the Crown Prosecution Service.”
(2)In section 3 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (disclosure of information by Serious Fraud Office)—
(a)the word “and” before paragraph (c) of subsection (1) is omitted;
(b)after that paragraph there is inserted “; and
(d)in order to comply with a requirement imposed under paragraph 7 of the Schedule to the Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate Act 2000,”;
(c)in subsection (3), for the words from “by a member of the Serious Fraud Office” to “or elsewhere and” there is substituted “by a member of the Serious Fraud Office—
(a)for the purposes of any prosecution in England and Wales, Northern Ireland or elsewhere, or
(b)in order to comply with a requirement imposed under paragraph 7 of the Schedule to the Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate Act 2000,
and”.