Serious Crime Act 2007: Elizabeth II. Chapter 27The Stationery Office, 2007 M11 2 - 156 pages The Serious Crime Act 2007 has a number of measures designed to improve the processes used by police and other authorities to identify, find, arrest and prosecute serious offenders. They include: new powers for police to stop and search for weapons in areas where violent crime has occurred; allowing courts to impose restrictions on those proven to be involved in serious crime; more information sharing between public and private sectors; makes encouraging or assisting somebody committing a crime an offence; merges elements of the Assets Recovery Agency with the Serious Organised Crime Agency; facilitates seizing proceeds of crime; extends HM Revenue and Customs surveillance powers to combat organised tax fraud |
Contents
DIEU ET | 1 |
General safeguards in relation to orders | 7 |
Extension of jurisdiction to Crown Court 19 Orders by Crown Court on conviction | 12 |
Powers of Crown Court to vary orders on conviction 21 Powers of Crown Court to vary orders on breach | 13 |
Interrelationship between different types of orders | 14 |
Additional right of appeal from High Court 24 Appeals from Crown Court | 15 |
Offence of failing to comply with order | 16 |
England and Wales and Scotland | 17 |
Mode of trial 56 Persons who may be perpetrators or encouragers etc 57 Alternative verdicts and guilty pleas | 36 |
Penalties | 37 |
Consequential alterations of the law 59 Abolition of common law replaced by this Part 60 Amendments relating to service law 61 Repeal of offence o... | 38 |
Part 2 | 39 |
Course of conduct PART 3 | 40 |
Offence for certain further disclosures of information | 41 |
Penalty and prosecution for offence under section 69 | 42 |
Code of practice for disclosure of information to prevent fraud | 43 |
Northern Ireland | 19 |
supplementary Particular types of persons 30 Bodies corporate including limited liability partnerships | 21 |
Other partnerships | 22 |
Unincorporated associations | 23 |
Overseas bodies 34 Providers of information society services | 24 |
Proceedings in the High Court 36 Proceedings in the Crown Court | 26 |
authorised monitors | 27 |
Costs in relation to authorised monitors 41 Powers of law enforcement officers to retain documents | 29 |
Part 1 | 30 |
PART 2 | 31 |
Proving an offence under this Part | 32 |
Proving an offence under section | 33 |
victims not liable | 34 |
Jurisdiction Jurisdiction and procedure 53 Prosecution of offences triable by reason of Schedule 4 | 35 |
Data protection rules 73 Data matching Data matching | 44 |
use of production orders and warrants 75 Use of production orders for detained cash investigations | 45 |
Use of search warrants etc for detained cash investigations | 46 |
Further provision about detained cash investigations Extension of powers of accredited financial investigators 78 Powers to seize property to which r... | 47 |
Powers to recover cash 80 Powers in relation to certain investigations | 48 |
Supplementary provision in relation to new powers | 49 |
Powers of management receivers and enforcement receivers 83 Civil recovery management receivers | 50 |
Powers for prosecutors to appear in cash recovery proceedings | 53 |
Disclosure of information by Revenue and Customs | 54 |
Scotland CHAPTER 3 | 55 |
Extension of investigatory powers of Revenue and Customs PART 4 | 56 |
Supplementary incidental and consequential provision 91 Transitional and transitory provisions and savings 92 Repeals and revocations Final 93 Ext... | 57 |
Commencement | 58 |
Short title | 59 |
Common terms and phrases
accredited financial investigator amended as follows appeal applies appointed appropriate Assets Recovery Agency association Audit Auditor authorised behalf believed body corporate body or person Chapter commission Commissioners committed concerned condition conduct connection considers constable convicted Crime Act 2002 crime prevention order Criminal Justice Crown Court Customs Prosecutions data matching exercise detained cash investigation Director of Public discharge disclosed disclosure disrupt effect enactment encouraging or assisting England and Wales falls force functions guilty imposed inciting indictment insert involved liable Majesty's Revenue matter means mentioned Northern Ireland offence under section officer of Revenue omit otherwise paragraph particular partnership Police proceedings Proceeds of Crime prohibitions protect provision public authority Public Prosecutions purposes reasonable receiver reference Regulation relation respect restrictions Revenue and Customs Schedule scheme Scotland Secretary serious crime prevention serious offence specified sub-paragraph subsection substitute SOCA transfer variation virtue of section warrant