The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 3055 (C. 102)

PROCEEDS OF CRIME

The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2002

Made

11th December 2002

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 458(1) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002(1), hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2002.

2.  Part 1 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (sections 1 to 5, together with Schedule 1) shall come into force on 13th January 2003.

Bob Ainsworth

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

11th December 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force, on 13th January 2003, Part 1 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, including all of Schedule 1 to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order)

S.I. 2002/3015 provided that the following provisions of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 are to come into force on 30th December 2002—

(a) section 89 (Procedure on appeal to the Court of Appeal) (for the purposes of making secondary legislation);

(b) section 90 (Procedure on appeal to the House of Lords) (for the purposes of making secondary legislation);

(c) Chapter 1 of Part 5 (sections 240 to 242) (Civil recovery of the proceeds etc of unlawful conduct - introductory);

(d) section 270(4) and (5) (Associated and joint property);

(e) Chapter 3 of Part 5 (sections 289 to 303) (Civil recovery of the proceeds etc of unlawful conduct—recovery of cash in summary proceedings);

(f) sections 304 to 311 (Civil recovery of the proceeds etc of unlawful conduct—general);

(g) sections 314 to 316 (Interpretation);

(h) section 454 (Customs officers);

(i) section 455 (Enactment);

(j) section 456 (Amendments) (in part);

(k) section 457 (Repeals) (in part);

(l) paragraphs 25(1) and (2)(a) and 36 of Schedule 11 (in part);

(m) in Schedule 12, in the entry relating to the Drug Trafficking Act 1994, the entry in the second column concerning sections 1 to 54 of that Act (in part).

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2002 c. 29.