Serious Crime Act 2007

1. Introduction

2. Summary

   1. Part 1 - Serious Crime Prevention Orders

   2. Part 2 - Encouraging or Assisting Crime

   3. Part 3 - Other Measures to Prevent or Disrupt Serious and Other Crime

   4. Part 4 - General and Final Provisions

3. Background

4. Territorial Extent

5. Territorial Application: Wales

6. Commentary on Sections

   1. Part 1: Serious Crime Prevention Orders

      General

      1. Section 1: Serious crime prevention orders

      2. Section 2: Involvement in serious crime: England and Wales orders

      3. Section 3: Involvement in serious crime: Northern Ireland orders

      4. Section 4: Involvement in serious crime: supplementary

      5. Section 5: Type of provision that may be made by orders

      6. General safeguards in relation to orders

         1. Section 6: Any individual must be 18 or over

         2. Section 7: Other exceptions

         3. Section 8: Limited class of applicants for making of orders

         4. Section 9: Right of third parties to make representations

         5. Section 10: Notice requirements in relation to orders

      7. Information safeguards

         1. Section 11: Restrictions on oral answers

         2. Section 12: Restrictions for legal professional privilege

         3. Section 13: Restrictions on excluded material and banking information

         4. Section 14: Restrictions relating to other enactments

         5. Section 15: Restrictions on use of information obtained

      8. Duration, variation and discharge of orders

         1. Section 16: Duration of orders

         2. Section 17: Variation of orders

         3. Section 18: Discharge of orders

      9. Extension of jurisdiction to Crown Court

         1. Section 19: Orders by Crown Court on conviction

         2. Section 20: Powers of the Crown Court to vary orders on conviction

         3. Section 21: Powers of Crown Court to vary orders on breach

         4. Section 22: Inter-relationship between different types of orders

      10. Appeals

          1. Section 23: Additional right of appeal from High Court

          2. Section 24: Appeals from Crown Court

      11. Enforcement

          1. Section 25: Offence of failing to comply with order

          2. Section 26: Powers of forfeiture in respect of offence

          3. Section 27: Powers to wind up companies etc: England and Wales and Scotland

          4. Section 28: Powers to wind up companies etc: Northern Ireland

          5. Section 29: Powers to wind up: supplementary

      12. Particular types of bodies

          1. Section 30: Bodies corporate including limited liability partnerships

          2. Section 31: Other partnerships

          3. Section 32: Unincorporated associations

          4. Section 33: Overseas bodies

          5. Section 34: Providers of information society services

      13. Supplementary

          1. Section 35: Proceedings in the High Court

          2. Section 36: Proceedings in the Crown Court

          3. Section 37 and Schedule 2: Functions of applicant authorities

          4. Section 38: Disclosure of information in accordance with orders

          5. Section 39: Compliance with orders: authorised monitors

          6. Section 40: Costs in relation to authorised monitors

          7. Section 41: Powers of law enforcement officers to retain documents

          8. Section 42: Interpretation: Part 1

          9. Section 43: Index of defined expressions: Part 1

   2. Part 2: Encouraging or Assisting Crime

      Inchoate offences

      1. Section 44: Intentionally encouraging or assisting an offence

      2. Section 45: Encouraging or assisting an offence believing it will be committed

      3. Section 46: Encouraging or assisting offences believing one or more will be committed

      4. Section 47: Proving an offence under this Part

      5. Section 48: Proving an offence under section 46

      6. Section 49:  Supplemental provisions

      7. Reasonableness defence

         1. Section 50:  Defence of acting reasonably

      8. Limitation on Liability

         1. Section 51:  Protective offences: victims not liable

      9. Jurisdiction and Procedure

         1. Section 52:  Jurisdiction and Schedule 4

         2. Section 53:  Prosecution of offences triable by reason of Schedule 4

         3. Section 54: Institution of proceedings etc. for an offence under this Part

         4. Section 55:  Mode of trial

         5. Section 56: Persons who may be perpetrators or encouragers etc.

         6. Section 57: Alternative verdicts and guilty pleas

         7. Section 58:  Penalties

      10. Consequential alterations of the law

          1. Section 59:  Abolition of common law replaced by this Part

          2. Section 60: Amendments relating to service law

          3. Section 61: Repeal of offence of enabling unauthorised access to computer material

          4. Section 62: No individual liability in respect of corporate manslaughter

          5. Section 63: Consequential amendments: Part 2

      11. Interpretation: Part 2

          1. Section 64:  Encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence

          2. Section 65: Being capable of encouraging or assisting

          3. Section 66: Indirectly encouraging or assisting

          4. Section 67:  Course of conduct

   3. Part 3: Other Measures to Prevent or Disrupt Serious and Other Crime

      1. Chapter 1: Prevention of Fraud

         Sharing information with anti-fraud organisations

         1. Section 68: Disclosure of information to prevent fraud

         2. Section 69: Offence for certain further disclosures of information

         3. Section 70: Penalty and prosecution for offence under section 69

         4. Section 71: Code of practice for disclosure of information to prevent fraud

         5. Section 72: Data protection rules

         6. Section 73: Data matching and Schedule 7

      2. Chapter 2: Proceeds of Crime

         Assets Recovery Agency

         1. Section 74: Abolition of Assets Recovery Agency and redistribution of functions etc.

         2. Schedule 8: Abolition of Assets Recovery Agency and its Director

         3. Schedule 9: Transfers to SOCA or NPIA

         4. Section 75: Use of production orders for detained cash investigations

         5. Section 76: Use of search warrants etc. for detained cash investigations

         6. Section 77 and Schedule 10: Further provision about detained cash investigations

         7. Sections 78 to 81 and Schedule 11: Extension of powers of accredited financial investigators

         8. Section 82: Powers of management receivers and enforcement receivers

         9. Section 83: Civil recovery management receivers

         10. Section 84: Powers for prosecutors to appear in cash recovery proceedings

         11. Section 85: Disclosure of information by Revenue and Customs

         12. Section 86: Use of force in executing search warrants: Scotland

      3. Chapter 3: Other measures

         1. Section 87: Incidents involving serious violence: powers to stop and search

         2. Section 88: Extension of investigatory powers of Revenue and Customs

   4. Part 4: General and Final Provisions

      1. Section 89: Orders

      2. Section 90: Supplementary, incidental or consequential provision

         1. Clause 91 and Schedule 13: Transitional and transitory provisions and savings

      3. Section 92 and Schedule 14: Repeals and revocations

      4. Section 93: Extent

      5. Section 94: Commencement

      6. Section 95: Short title

7. Commencement

8. Hansard References

9. Table of Abbreviations