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Serious Crime Act 2015

Section 47: Serious crime prevention orders: meaning of “serious offence”

210.Schedule 1 to the 2007 Act lists the serious offences conviction for which, or involvement in which, can trigger the making of a SCPO. Subsections (1) to (4) of this section add various specified firearms offences, offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and the offence in section 6 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (cultivation of cannabis plants) in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (which relates to England and Wales) to that Act. Subsections (5) to (8) add the equivalent offences to Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the 2007 Act (which relates to Northern Ireland).

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