- a law enforcement officer
means— (a) a constable;
- a relevant authority
means— a SOCA, b the Director of Public Prosecutions, c the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland, d the Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions, or e the Director of the Serious Fraud Office. 3 In considering under subsection (1) the way which is best calculated to contribute to the reduction of crime a relevant authority must have regard to any guidance given to it by— a in the case of SOCA, the Secretary of State, b in the case of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions or the Director of the Serious Fraud Office, the Attorney General, and c in the case of the Director of Public Prosecutions for North
- a serious offence in a country outside England and Wales
means an offence under the law of a country outside England and Wales which, at the time when the court is considering the application or matter in question—
- a serious offence in a country outside Northern Ireland
means an offence under the law of a country outside Northern Ireland which, at the time when the court is considering the application or matter in question—
- a serious offence in a country outside Scotland
means an offence under the law of a country outside Scotland which, at the time when the court is considering the application or matter in question—
- a serious offence in England and Wales
means an offence under the law of England and Wales which, at the time when the court is considering the application or matter in question—
- a serious offence in Northern Ireland
means an offence under the law of Northern Ireland which, at the time when the court is considering the application or matter in question—
- a serious offence in Scotland
means an offence under the law of Scotland which, at the time when the court is considering the application or matter in question—
- an anti-fraud organisation
means any unincorporated association, body corporate or other person which enables or facilitates any sharing of information to prevent fraud or a particular kind of fraud or which has any of these functions as its purpose or one of its purposes;
- an industrial and provident society
means a society registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 24) or a society deemed by virtue of section 4 of that Act to be so registered;
- appropriate court
means the Court of Session or sheriff;
- appropriate Minister
means— (a) in relation to a relevant body falling within paragraphs (a) to (c) of the definition of “relevant body” below, the Treasury;
- armed forces
means His Majesty’s forces (within the meaning of the Armed Forces Act 2006);
- assets
means property of any description, wherever situated;
- authorised individual
means an individual who—
- authorised person
means a member of SOCA's staff authorised by SOCA for the purposes of this section.”
- body
includes office. 4E 1 Nothing in Article 4D prevents the Comptroller and Auditor General from publishing a report on a data matching exercise (including on the results of the exercise). 2 But the report may not include information relating to a particular body or person if— a the body or person is the subject of any data included in the data matching exercise;
- body corporate
includes a limited liability partnership;
- civil proceedings
means civil proceedings of whatever nature and whether brought in the United Kingdom or elsewhere;
- civilian subject to service discipline
has the same meaning as in the Armed Forces Act 2006;
- Commissioners of Revenue and Customs
means Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs;
- company
means— (a) a company registered under the Companies Act 2006 in England and Wales..., or (b) an unregistered company within the meaning of Part 5 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (see section 220 of that Act), but does not include a relevant body;
- country
includes territory;
- document
means anything in which information of any description is recorded (whether or not in legible form);
- enactment
has the same meaning as in section 14;
- firearm
has the meaning given by section 57(1) of the Firearms Act 1968;
- functions
includes powers, duties and objectives, and references to the exercise of functions include the pursuit of objectives;
- GCHQ
has the meaning given by section 3(3) of the Intelligence Services Act 1994;
- head
means— (a) in relation to the Security Service, the Director General of the Security Service, (b) in relation to the Secret Intelligence Service, the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, and (c) in relation to GCHQ, the Director of GCHQ;
- imitation firearm
has the meaning given by section 57(4) of that Act;
- information
includes documents;
- information society services
has the same meaning as in section 34, and subsection (7) of that section applies for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of that section.
- intelligence service
means the Security Service, the Secret Intelligence Service or GCHQ.
- intermediary services
means an information society service which— (a) consists in the provision of access to a communication network or the transmission in a communication network of information provided by a recipient of the service;
- law enforcement agency
means— (za) the chief constable of a police force maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996;
- Listed offence
means—
- Local government body in Wales
has the meaning given in section 12(1) of the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004.”
- modifications
includes additions and omissions (and “modify” is to be read accordingly);
- monitoring services
means— (a) analysing some or all information received in accordance with a serious crime prevention order;
- NPIA
means the National Policing Improvement Agency;
- offensive weapon
means any weapon to which section 141 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33) (offensive weapons) applies.
- officer of a body corporate
means any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate;
- officer of an unincorporated association
means any officer of an unincorporated association or any member of its governing body;
- Patient data
means data relating to an individual which are held for medical purposes (within the meaning of section 251 of the National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41)) and from which the individual can be identified. 6 This section does not limit the circumstances in which data may be disclosed apart from this section. 7 Data matching exercises may include data provided by a body or person outside England and Wales. 64D 1 This section applies to the following information— a information relating to a particular body or person obtained by or on behalf of the Auditor General for Wales for the purpose of conducting a data matching exercise, b the results of any such exercise. 2 Information t
- premises
includes any land, vehicle, vessel, aircraft or hovercraft.
- proceeds of crime
means assets derived, or suspected to be derived, directly or indirectly from criminal conduct (wherever occurring);
- protected information
means—
- Protective offence
means an offence that exists (wholly or in part) for the protection of a particular category of persons (“the protected category”).
- public authority
has the same meaning as in section 68;
- public body
means a body or person whose functions— a are functions of a public nature;
- relevant authority
means— a in relation to a confiscation investigation, a prosecutor;
- relevant body
means— (a) a building society (within the meaning of the Building Societies Act 1986 (c. 53));
- Relevant condition
means a condition that—
- relevant Director
has the meaning given by section 352(5A).”
- relevant NHS body
means— i a body to which Article 90 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (NI 14) applies;
- relevant person
means— a the Serious Organised Crime Agency, b the Director of the Serious Fraud Office, or c the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland.”
- relevant police area
means— (a) the police area in England or Wales in which it appears to the court that P resides or will reside, and (b) in a case where it is proposed to include in the order— (a) a requirement that P must remain, for specified periods, at a specified place, or (b) a provision prohibiting P from entering a specified place or area, the police area in England or Wales in which the place or area proposed to be specified is situated;
- relevant power
means a power exercisable under— a section 45 or 194 (powers to seize property to which restraint orders apply);
- Revenue and Customs
means— (a) the Commissioners of Revenue and Customs;
- revenue and customs information
means information about, acquired as a result of or held in connection with the exercise of a function of the Commissioners of Revenue and Customs or an officer of Revenue and Customs in respect of a person;
- revenue and customs information relating to a person
has the meaning given by section 19(2) of the 2005 Act;
- senior officer of a partnership
means any person who has the control or management of the business carried on by the partnership at the principal place where it is carried on.
- serious crime
means—
- serious crime prevention order
means— (a) an order under this section;
- service provider
means a person providing an information society service.
- SOCA
means the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
- social media service
means an online service that meets the following conditions—
- specified
means specified in the order.
- specified anti-fraud organisation
means any person which is a specified anti-fraud organisation for the purposes of section 68.
- specified financial information
means the information specified in paragraph 1(1)(a) and (b) of Schedule 3A to the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008;
- specified information
means information specified or described in an order made by the Secretary of State;
- specified information about identification documents
means the information specified in paragraph 2(a) and (b) of that Schedule;
- specified offence
means an offence specified in the indictment (within the meaning of subsection (4) of that section), and related expressions are to be read accordingly.
- specified person
means any person specified, or falling within a description specified, by an order of the Secretary of State.”
- specified public authority
means a public authority specified or described in an order made by the Secretary of State.
- statutory provision
has the meaning given in section 59(8). 64E 1 Nothing in section 64D prevents the Auditor General for Wales from publishing a report on a data matching exercise (including on the results of the exercise). 2 But the report may not include information relating to a particular body or person if— a the body or person is the subject of any data included in the data matching exercise, b the body or person can be identified from the information, and c the information is not otherwise in the public domain. 3 A report published under this section may be published in any manner which the Auditor General considers appropriate for bringing it to the attention of those members of th
- subordinate legislation
has the same meaning as in the Interpretation Act 1978.
- terrorism
has the same meaning as in the Terrorism Act 2000 (see section 1 of that Act).
- the 2005 Act
means the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11);
- the Agency
means the Assets Recovery Agency;
- the appropriate authority
means—
- the court
means the High Court in Northern Ireland;
- the data protection legislation
has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act).
- the Director
has the same meaning as in section 435.”
- the E-Commerce Directive
means Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (Directive on electronic commerce);
- the public
includes a section of the public or a particular member of the public.
- the relevant applicant authority
means—
- the specified offence
means the offence specified in the indictment as the one alleged to be the anticipated offence;
- transfer scheme
means a scheme made by the Secretary of State under this Schedule.
- unincorporated association
means any body of persons unincorporate but does not include a partnership.
- Unlawful conduct
has the meaning given by section 241.”
- user-to-user service
has the meaning given by section 3 of the Online Safety Act 2023.
- Welsh public body
means a public body (as defined in section 12(3)) whose functions relate exclusively to Wales or an area of Wales.”