PART 6U.K.ENFORCEMENT AND SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISION RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENCES

Supplementary provision relating to criminal offencesU.K.

Possession of means of committing offenceU.K.

64.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person who, for the purpose of committing an offence under Part 3, has in his possession anything capable of being used for committing the offence is guilty of an offence and punishable in like manner as for that offence.

(2) An offence under paragraph (1) may only be committed by a person—

(a)in the United Kingdom; or

(b)at a place where, or on a ship or aircraft on which and in a place where, the offence under Part 3 could have been committed.

(3) In this regulation “the United Kingdom” means the United Kingdom (including its internal waters) and the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom.