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2002 No. 2326

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Department of Trade and Industry Investigations) Order 2002

  Made 10th September 2002 
  Laid before Parliament 11th September 2002 
  Coming into force 14th October 2002 

The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 114A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984[1] hereby makes the following Order:

Title and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Department of Trade and Industry Investigations) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 14th October 2002.

Definitions
    
2. In this Order - 

Application of certain provisions of the Act to DTI investigations
    
3.  - (1) Subject to the modifications set out in article 4 - 

    (2) The investigations for the purpose of which the provisions of the Act referred to in paragraph (1) are applied by this Order include investigations of offences committed, or suspected of having been committed, before the coming into force of this Order or of section 114A of the Act.

Modifications
    
4.  - (1) For the purposes of article 3, the modifications are as follows.

    (2) Section 9 shall have effect as if the word "constable" in section 9(1) were omitted and replaced by the words "DTI investigator".

    (3) Section 15 of the Act shall have effect as if the word "DTI investigator or" were inserted before the word "constable" where it appears in section 15(2) and (4).

    (4) Section 20 shall have effect as if after the word " constable" were inserted the words "or a DTI investigator".

    (5) Section 21 shall have effect as if - 

    (6) Section 22(1) shall have effect as if the words "or a DTI investigator" were inserted after the word "constable" wherever it appears.

    (7) Schedule 1 shall have effect as if - 


Melanie Johnson,
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Competition, Consumers and Markets, Department of Trade and Industry

10th September 2002



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order vests in an investigator appointed by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when investigating a serious arrestable offence or anything which there are reasonable grounds for suspecting has involved the commission of a serious arrestable offence, the powers set out in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ("the Act") for a constable to apply to a circuit judge for (i) an order requiring production of or access to "special procedure material" or (ii) a warrant for one or more constables together with one or more DTI investigators to search for and seize such material. "Special procedure material" is defined in section 14 of the Act and "serious arrestable offence" is defined in section 116 of the Act. Article 4 of the Order makes consequential amendments.


Notes:

[1] 1984 c. 60; section 114A was inserted by section 85 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c. 16).back



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  Prepared 18 September 2002


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