The Serious Crime Act 2007 (Specified Anti-fraud Organisations) Order 2008

Made: 2nd September 2008

Laid before Parliament: 5th September 2008

Coming into force: 1st October 2008

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 68(8) of the Serious Crime Act 2007¹, makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Serious Crime Act 2007 (Specified Anti-fraud Organisations) Order 2008 and shall come into force on 1st October 2008.

Specified anti-fraud organisations

2

The following anti-fraud organisations are specified pursuant to section 68 of the Serious Crime Act 2007—

• (a) CIFAS;

• (b) Experian Limited;

• (c) Insurance Fraud Investigators Group;

• (d) N Hunter Limited;

• (e) The Insurance Fraud Bureau;

• (f) The Telecommunications United Kingdom Fraud Forum Limited.

Signed

Vernon Coaker — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — 2nd September 2008

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Section 68 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 provides a power for a public authority to disclose information as a member of a specified anti-fraud organisation or otherwise in accordance with arrangements made by such an organisation, for the purposes of preventing fraud or a particular kind of fraud. An anti-fraud organisation is any unincorporated association, body corporate or other person which enables or facilitates any sharing of information to prevent fraud or a particular kind of fraud or which has any of these functions as its purpose or one of its purposes. A specified anti-fraud organisation is an anti-fraud organisation specified in article 2 of this Order.

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