(1)The Authority is to establish and maintain a body to be known as the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (“the Agency”).
(2)The Agency has the functions of—
(a)preventing and detecting serious organised crime;
(b)contributing to the reduction of such crime in other ways and to the mitigation of its consequences; and
(c)gathering, storing and analysing information relevant to—
(i)the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of offences; or
(ii)the reduction of crime in other ways or the mitigation of its consequences.
(3)The Agency may disseminate such information to—
(a)police forces;
(b)police forces maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996 (c. 16);
(c)the metropolitan police force;
(d)the City of London police force;
(e)the Police Service of Northern Ireland;
(f)the States of Jersey Police Force;
(g)the salaried police force of the Island of Guernsey;
(h)the Isle of Man Constabulary;
(i)the Ministry of Defence Police;
(j)the British Transport Police Force;
(k)the Civil Nuclear Constabulary;
(l)the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and any other government department;
(m)the Serious Organised Crime Agency;
(n)the Scottish Administration;
(o)any other person who is charged with the duty of investigating offences or charging offenders;
(p)any other person who is engaged outwith the United Kingdom in the carrying on of activities similar to any carried on by the Agency or a police force.
Commencement Information
I1S. 2 wholly in force at 1.4.2007; s. 2 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 104; s. 2(1) in force at 1.1.2007 by S.S.I. 2006/607, art. 3, Sch; s. 2 in force so far as not already in force at 1.4.2007 by S.S.I. 2007/84, art. 3(3)