2012 No. 2669

Police, England And Wales

The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2012

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 113A(6) and 125(1) and (2) of the Police Act 19971.

Citation, commencement and extent1

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2012 and come into force on 19th November 2012.

2

These Regulations extend to England and Wales.

Amendment of the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) Regulations2

In regulation 9 of the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) Regulations 2002 (central records: prescribed details)2 for “National Policing Improvement Agency” substitute “Secretary of State”.

Taylor of HolbeachParliamentary Under-Secretary of StateHome Office
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 19 November 2012, amend the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) Regulations 2002 (“the 2002 Regulations”).

Regulation 2 amends regulation 9 of the 2002 Regulations in order to replace the reference to the National Policing Improvement Agency (“NPIA”) with a reference to the Secretary of State. The NPIA is being phased out and the Home Office has now taken over the function of running the Police National Computer (“PNC”). It is the names database of convictions, cautions, warnings and reprimands which is held on the PNC which is prescribed as “central records” for the purposes of section 113A(6) of the Police Act 1997.