Amendment of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 20002
1
Schedule 6 to the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (which specifies trigger offences for the purposes of section 70 of the Act) shall be amended as follows.
2
In paragraph 1, after “section 15 (obtaining property by deception)”, insert “section 22 (handling stolen goods)”.
3
After paragraph 2, insert
3
An offence under section 1(1) of the Criminal Attempts Act 19812 is a trigger offence, if committed in respect of an offence under any of the following provisions of the Theft Act 19683:
section 1 (theft)
section 8 (robbery)
section 9 (burglary)
section 15 (obtaining property by deception)
section 22 (handling stolen goods).
4
Offences under the following provisions of the Vagrancy Act 18244 are trigger offences:
section 3 (begging)
section 4 (persistent begging).