The Serious Crime Act 2007 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2008

Made: 24th September 2008

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 94(1) of the Serious Crime Act 2007[^f00001]:

1

This Order may be cited as the Serious Crime Act 2007 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2008.

2

The following provisions of the Serious Crime Act 2007 shall come into force on 1st October 2008—

• (a) Part 2 (encouraging and assisting crime) together with Schedules 3 (listed offences), 4 (extra-territoriality), 5 (amendments relating to service law) and 6 (minor and consequential amendments);

• (b) section 68(1) to (7) (disclosure of information to prevent fraud);

• (c) sections 69 and 70 (offence for certain further disclosures of information and penalty for that offence);

• (d) section 71(3) and (6) (code of practice for disclosure of information to prevent fraud);

• (e) section 72 (data protection rules);

• (f) section 91(1) (transitional and transitory provisions and savings) in so far as it relates to the provisions in sub-paragraph (g);

• (g) paragraphs 5, 6 and 8 of Schedule 13 (transitional and transitory provisions and savings);

• (h) section 92 (repeals and revocation) in so far as it relates to the entries in Schedule 14 in sub-paragraph (i); and

• (i) in Schedule 14 (repeals and revocation) the entries relating to—

• (i) the Criminal Law Act 1977²;

• (ii) the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980³;

• (iii) the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981⁴;

• (iv) the Criminal Attempts and Conspiracy (Northern Ireland) Order 1983⁵;

• (v) the Public Order Act 1986⁶;

• (vi) the Computer Misuse Act 1990⁷;

• (vii) the International Criminal Court Act 2001⁸; and

• (viii) the Police and Justice Act 2006⁹.

Signed

Vernon Coaker — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — 24th September 2008

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings into force the provisions of the Serious Crime Act 2007 set out in article 2 on 1st October 2008.

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