Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Disclosure of Information to and by Lord Advocate and Scottish Ministers) Amendment Order 2015 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Amendment of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Disclosure of Information to and by Lord Advocate and Scottish Ministers) Order 2003

2.-(1) The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Disclosure of Information to and by Lord Advocate and Scottish Ministers) Order 2003(3) is amended as follows.

(2) In article 3 (disclosure of information by Lord Advocate and by Scottish Ministers), after paragraph (d), insert-

"(e)the functions of Revenue Scotland relating to the collection and management of the devolved taxes (within the meaning of section 80A(4) of the Scotland Act 1998)(4).".

(3) In the Schedule (persons designated as permitted persons for the purposes of section 439 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002), after the entry relating to the department of the Environment in Northern Ireland, insert the entry set out in the following table-

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Disclosure of Information to and by Lord Advocate and Scottish Ministers) Order 2003 ("the principal Order"), which provides for the disclosure of information to and by the Lord Advocate and the Scottish Ministers in connection with their functions under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 ("the 2002 Act"). It has effect throughout the United Kingdom.

Article 3 of the principal Order designates certain functions, which the Scottish Ministers think are of a public nature, for the purposes of section 441(2)(j) and (9) of the 2002 Act. Article 2(2) of this Order amends the list of designated functions to include the functions of Revenue Scotland.

The Schedule to the principal Order designates as permitted persons, for the purposes of section 439 of the 2002 Act, the persons listed in column 1 of that Schedule. The designations are made in respect of the functions specified in relation to those persons in column 2 of that Schedule. Article 2(3) of this Order amends the Schedule to the principal Order to designate Revenue Scotland as a permitted person in relation to its specified functions.

By virtue of sections 439(3) and 441(7) of the 2002 Act, this Order has effect subject to the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 (c.29) and Part 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (c.23).