The Serious Crime Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2015

Made: 20th October 2015

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred by section 88(1) of the Serious Crime Act 2015[^f00001], makes the following Regulations.

Citation and interpretation

1

• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Serious Crime Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2015.

• (2) In these Regulations “the 2015 Act” means the Serious Crime Act 2015.

Provisions coming into force on 31st October 2015

2

The following provisions of the 2015 Act come into force on 31st October 2015—

• (a) section 74 (duty to notify police of female genital mutilation);

• (b) section 75 (guidance about female genital mutilation);

• (c) section 85(1) (minor and consequential amendments), for the purposes of paragraph 60 of Schedule 4 (minor and consequential amendments); and

• (d) paragraph 60 of Schedule 4.

Provision coming into force on 10th November 2015

3

Section 79 of the 2015 Act (throwing articles into prisons) comes into force on 10th November 2015.

Signed

Karen Bradley — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State — Home Office — 20th October 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations are the third commencement regulations made under the Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9) (“the 2015 Act”).

Regulation 2 brings into force on 31st October 2015 sections 74 and 75 of the 2015 Act, which insert new sections 5B and 5C into the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 (c. 31) to create a duty to notify the police of female genital mutilation in England and Wales. Regulation 2 also brings into force on the same day the consequential amendment in paragraph 60 of Schedule 4 to the 2015 Act that relates to these provisions.

Regulation 3 brings into force on 10th November 2015 section 79 of the 2015 Act which inserts a new section 40CB into the Prison Act 1952 (c. 52), making it a criminal offence for a person, without authorisation, to throw any article or substance into a prison. The reference to “throwing” includes doing anything from outside the prison that results in the article or substance being projected or conveyed over or through a boundary of the prison so as to land inside the prison.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2015 c. 9.