Statutory Instruments
Criminal Law, England And Wales
Made
20th October 2015
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred by section 88(1) of the Serious Crime Act 2015(1), makes the following Regulations.
1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Serious Crime Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2015.
(2) In these Regulations "the 2015 Act" means the Serious Crime Act 2015.
2. The following provisions of the 2015 Act come into force on 31st October 2015-
(a)section 74 (duty to notify police of female genital mutilation);
(b)section 75 (guidance about female genital mutilation);
(c)section 85(1) (minor and consequential amendments), for the purposes of paragraph 60 of Schedule 4 (minor and consequential amendments); and
(d)paragraph 60 of Schedule 4.
3. Section 79 of the 2015 Act (throwing articles into prisons) comes into force on 10th November 2015.
Karen Bradley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Home Office
20th October 2015
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations are the third commencement regulations made under the Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9) ("the 2015 Act").
Regulation 2 brings into force on 31st October 2015 sections 74 and 75 of the 2015 Act, which insert new sections 5B and 5C into the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 (c. 31) to create a duty to notify the police of female genital mutilation in England and Wales. Regulation 2 also brings into force on the same day the consequential amendment in paragraph 60 of Schedule 4 to the 2015 Act that relates to these provisions.
Regulation 3 brings into force on 10th November 2015 section 79 of the 2015 Act which inserts a new section 40CB into the Prison Act 1952 (c. 52), making it a criminal offence for a person, without authorisation, to throw any article or substance into a prison. The reference to "throwing" includes doing anything from outside the prison that results in the article or substance being projected or conveyed over or through a boundary of the prison so as to land inside the prison.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
The following provisions of the Act have been brought into force to their fullest extent (unless indicated otherwise) by commencement regulations made before the date of these Regulations:
Provision | Date of Commencement | S.I. No. or *S.R. No. |
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Sections 1 to 4 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 5 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 6 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 7 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 8 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 9 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 10 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 11 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 12 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 14 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 24 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/190* |
Section 25 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/190* |
Section 26 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/190* |
Section 27 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/190* |
Section 28 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/190* |
Section 29 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/190* |
Section 30 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/190* |
Section 31 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/190* |
Section 32 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/190* |
Section 33 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/190* |
Section 34 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/190* |
Section 35 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/190* |
Section 36 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/190* |
Section 37 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 39 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 40 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 41 | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 42 | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 43 | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 44 | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 45 | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 47 | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 48 | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 49 | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 50 (partially) | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 51 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/820 |
Sections 52 to 65 | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 66 | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 68 | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 69 | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 73 | 17.07.2015 | 2015/1428 |
Section 78 | 01.06.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 84 | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 85(1)(partially) | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 85(1)(partially) | 01.06.2015 | 2015/820 |
Section 85(1)(partially) | 17.07.2015 | 2015/1428 |
Section 85(1)(partially) | 03.05.2015 | 2015/190* |
Section 85(1)(partially) | 01.06.2015 | 2015/190* |
Schedule 2 | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Schedule 3 | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Schedule 4 (partially) | 03.05.2015 | 2015/820 |
Schedule 4 (partially) | 03.05.2015 | 2015/190* |
Schedule 4 (partially) | 01.06.2015 | 2015/190* |
Schedule 4 (partially) | 17.07.2015 | 2015/1428 |