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2003 No. 137

POLICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records)(Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2003

  Made 29th January 2003 
  Laid before Parliament 30th January 2003 
  Coming into force 17th February 2003 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 113(1)(a), 114(1)(a), 115(1)(a) and 116(1)(a) of the Police Act 1997[1] and having regard to the meaning of "prescribed" in section 125 of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 17th February 2003.

     2. The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2003[a][2] are hereby revoked.

     3.  - (1) The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) Regulations 2002[3] shall be amended as follows.

    (2) Sections E (Additional information) and F (Referee details) shall be omitted from the form prescribed in Schedule 2 to those Regulations for the purposes of sections 113(1)(a) (criminal record certificate), 114(1)(a) (criminal record certificate: Crown employment), 115(1)(a) (enhanced criminal record certificate) and 116(1)(a) (enhanced criminal record certificate: judicial appointment and Crown employment) of the Police Act 1997.


Charles Falconer
Minister of State

Home Office
29th January 2003[b]


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations amend the form prescribed by the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/233) for applications for criminal record certificates and enhanced criminal record certificates. Sections E and F of the application form, which require the applicant to supply additional information to assist in identity checking and details of referees respectively, are omitted. The Criminal Records Bureau no longer requires this information to be supplied on the application form to enable an application to be processed.

These Regulations revoke the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/116) which contained a number of typographical errors and which have not come into force or been published.

Notes:

 [1] 1997 c. 50.back

[2] S.I. 2003/116.back

[3] S.I. 2002/233.back

[a] Amended by Correction Slip. Page 1, article 2, after "The Police Act 1997": delete"(Criminal Records) Regulations 2002", substitute "(Criminal Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2003"; back

[b] date of signatory should read "29th January 2003". back



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  Prepared 10 February 2003

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