Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15)

Part 2 U.K. Investigations, prosecutions, proceedings and proceeds of crime

Chapter 1 U.K. Investigatory powers of DPP, etc.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (6.7.2020 at 1.00 p.m.) by The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/680), regs. 1(2), 37

C2 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Venezuela (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/135), regs. 1(2), 58; S.I. 2019/627, reg. 3(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

C3 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida (United Nations Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/466), regs. 1(2), 46; S.I. 2019/627, reg. 9(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

C4 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Burma (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/136), regs. 1(2), 58; S.I. 2019/627, reg. 4(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

C5 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Nicaragua (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/610), regs. 1, 35; S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 8(2)

C6 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The South Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/438), regs. 1(2), 56; S.I. 2019/627, reg. 6(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

C7 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Lebanon (Sanctions) (Assassination of Rafiq Hariri and others) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/617), regs. 1(2), 30; S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 11(2)

C8 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/855), regs. 1(2), 87; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1) (as amended (30.6.2023) by S.I. 2023/713, regs. 1(2), 9)

C9 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Counter-Terrorism (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/577), regs. 1(2), 33; S.I. 2020/1416, reg. 2(2)

C10 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Iraq (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/707), regs. 1(2), 57; S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 14(2)

C11 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Counter-Terrorism (International Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/573), regs. 1(2), 49; S.I. 2019/627, reg. 11(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

C12 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Yemen (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1278), regs. 1(2), 56; S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 20(2)

C13 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/618), regs. 1(2), 36; S.I. 2019/627, reg. 14(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

C14 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/753), regs. 1(2), 57; S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 15(2)

C15 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Republic of Belarus (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/600), regs. 1(2), 55; S.I. 2019/627, reg. 12(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

C16 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Somalia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/642), regs. 1(2), 70; S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 12(2)

C17 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/411), regs. 1(2), 117; S.I. 2019/627, reg. 7(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

C18 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Zimbabwe (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/604), regs. 1(2), 56; S.I. 2019/627, reg. 13(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

C19 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Mali (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/705), regs. 1(2), 37; S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 13(2)

C20 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Unauthorised Drilling Activities in the Eastern Mediterranean (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1474), regs. 1(2), 36; S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 24(2)

C21 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Iran (Sanctions) (Nuclear) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/461), regs. 1(2), 63; S.I. 2019/627, reg. 8(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

C22 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Republic of Guinea-Bissau (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/554), regs. 1(2), 36; S.I. 2019/627, reg. 10(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

C23 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/616), regs. 1(2), 56; S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 10(2)

C24 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Afghanistan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/948), regs. 1(2), 45; S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 16(2)

C25 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Iran (Sanctions) (Human Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/134), regs. 1(2), 58; S.I. 2019/627, reg. 2(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

C26 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Guinea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1145), regs. 1(2), 35; S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 3(2)

C27 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Cyber (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/597), regs. 1(2), 35; S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 6(2)

C28 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Libya (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1665), regs. 1(3), 73

C29 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Burundi (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1142), regs. 1(2), 35; S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 2(2)

C30 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Democratic Republic of the Congo (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/433), regs. 1(2), 56; S.I. 2019/627, reg. 5(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

C31 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/608), regs. 1(2), 36; S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 7(2)

C32 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/792), regs. 1(3), 86; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

C33 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (31.12.2020) by The Misappropriation (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1468), regs. 1(2), 36; S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 23(2)

C34 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (26.4.2021 at noon) by The Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/488), regs. 1(2), 36

C35 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (29.4.2021 at 5.00 p.m.) by The Myanmar (Sanctions) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/496), regs. 1(3), 67

C36 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (14.12.2021) by The Burundi (Sanctions) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1404), regs. 1(2), 36

C37 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (28.12.2022) by The Haiti (Sanctions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1281), regs. 1(2), 47

C38 Pt. 2 Ch. 1 applied (14.12.2023) by The Iran (Sanctions) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1314), regs. 1(2), 86 (with regs. 98-100)

Supplementary U.K.

68 Procedure applicable to search warrants U.K.

In Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c. 16) (powers of seizure to which section 50 applies) after paragraph 73E (inserted by the Human Tissue Act 2004 (c. 30)) insert—

“Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005

73F The power of seizure conferred by section 66 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (seizure of documents for purposes of investigation by DPP or other Investigating Authority).”

Commencement Information

I1 S. 68 in force at 1.4.2006 for S. by S.S.I. 2006/166, art. 2(1)(a)

I2 S. 68 in force at 1.4.2006 except to the extent that it extends to S. by S.I. 2005/1521, art. 5(1)