The Serious Crime Act 2007 (Specified Anti-fraud Organisations) Order 2014

Made: 18th June 2014

Laid before Parliament-: 25th June 2014

Coming into force: 21st July 2014

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 68(8) of the Serious Crime Act 2007[^f00001].

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Serious Crime Act 2007 (Specified Anti-fraud Organisations) Order 2014 and comes into force on 21st July 2014.

Specified anti-fraud organisations

2

The following anti-fraud organisations are specified pursuant to section 68(8) of the Serious Crime Act 2007—

• (a) Callcredit Information Group Limited[^f00002];

• (b) BAE Systems Applied Intelligence Limited[^f00003];

• (c) Dun and Bradstreet Limited[^f00004];

• (d) Equifax Limited[^f00005];

• (e) Synectics Solutions Limited[^f00006].

Signed

Karen Bradley — Minister of State — Home Office — 18th June 2014

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Section 68 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 (“the 2007 Act”) 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. Article 2 of this Order specifies five anti-fraud organisations for the purpose of section 68 of the 2007 Act.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2007 c. 27; section 68(5) and (6) were repealed by section 98(a) of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 13).

[^f00002]: Company number 04968328.

[^f00003]: Company number 01337451.

[^f00004]: Company number 00160043.

[^f00005]: Company number 02425920.

[^f00006]: Company number 02685135.