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 1977(1);

(ii) the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980(2);

(iii) the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(3);

(iv) the Criminal Attempts and Conspiracy (Northern Ireland) Order 1983(4);

(v) the Public Order Act 1986(5);

(vi) the Computer Misuse Act 1990(6);

(vii) the International Criminal Court Act 2001(7); and

(viii) the Police and Justice Act 2006(8).

(1)

1977 c. 45.

(2)

1980 c. 43.

(3)

S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26).

(4)

S.I. 1983/1120 (N.I. 13).

(5)

1986 c. 64.

(6)

1990 c. 18.

(7)

2001 c. 17.

(8)

2006 c. 48.