UK Offence Report

Enabling Acts

The Acts of Parliament under which these offences were made. An Act grants a power; regulations made under it create the offence.

ActInstrumentsOffences
No. 80 Constitutional Law Devolution, Scotland Transport The Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 1 3
Nuclear Energy (Financing) Act 2022 1 3
Order 1989 and section 19(3) of the Registration of Deeds Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 1 3
Order 1996, sections 85 and 86 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 1 3
Order under section 1 of the Transport and Works Act 1992 1 3
Parks Regulation (Amendment) Act 1926 3 3
Parliament in accordance with section 49(4A) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 1 3
Parliament pursuant to section 17(4) of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 1 3
Parliament under paragraph 6(3) of schedule 19 of the Coronavirus Act 2020 1 3
Pilotage Act 1987 1 3
Regulations are made under section 21(1)(b) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 1 3
Regulations in accordance with section 86 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 1 3
Regulations. In accordance with section 12(6) of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 1 3
Regulations. In accordance with section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 1 3
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 1 3
Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 3 3
Rules apply rules made under section 411 of the Insolvency Act 1986 1 3
S.I. 2012/1755 1 3
S.I. 2018/1106 1 3
S.I. 2018/1107 1 3
S.I. 2018/1108 1 3
S.I. 2019/798 1 3
S.I. 2020/984 (W. 221) 1 3
Schedule 1 to the Civil Aviation Act 1982 2 3
Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 1 3
Schedule 10 to the Armed Forces Act 2006 1 3
Schedule 2 to the Animal Health Act 1981 3 3
Schedule 2 to the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 1 3
Schedule 2A to, the Road Traffic Act 1988 1 3
Schedule 3 to, the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 1 3
Schedule 3 to, the Water Industry Act 1991 1 3
Schedule 4 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988 1 3
Schedule 4 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1992 1 3
Schedule 5 to, the Merchant Shipping Act 1974 3 3
Schedules 6 and 7 to, the Railways Act 1993 1 3
Section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 3 3
Sections 4(1), 22(3), 30(1) and 37(3) of the Extradition Act 1989 1 3
Social Security Act 1986 3 3
Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 3 3
Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 3 3
State by sections 93, 94 and 95 of the Environment Act 1995 1 3
State pursuant to section 86(2) of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 2 3
Superannuation Act 1972 3 3
Technical and Further Education Act 2017 1 3
Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 1 3
Thames Barrier and Flood Prevention Act 1972 1 3
The Criminal Justice Act 2003 1 3
The Treasury has consented under section 56(1) of the Finance Act 1973 1 3
Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 1 3
UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021 1 3
Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 2 3
Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 1 3
West Midlands) Act 2017 1 3
Young Persons (Protection from Tobacco) Act 1991 1 3
(9) 1 2
(EC) 498/2007 1 2
(EC) No 1333/2008 1 2
(EC) No 1566/2007 2 2
(EC) No 1831/2003 2 2
(EC) No 2173/2005 1 2
(EC) No 652/2014 1 2
(EC) No 850/98 2 2
(EC) No. 1257/1999 2 2
(EC) No. 1782/2003 2 2
(EC) No. 1881/2006 1 2
(EC) No. 714/2009 1 2
(EC) No. 715/2009 1 2
(EC) No. 884/2007 2 2
1992/2994 1 2
1993/100 1 2
2000/53/EC 1 2
2006/43/EC 1 2
78/660/EEC 1 2
83/349/EEC 1 2
84/253/EEC 1 2
99/31/EC 2 2
A2 of Part I of Schedule 3 to the Harbours Act 1964 1 2
Act and by section 103(3) of the Medicines Act 1968 1 2
Act and section 121(2) of the Transport Act 1968 1 2
Adoption Act 1976 2 2
Agricultural (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972 2 2
Agriculture Act 1967 1 2
Agriculture and Forestry (Financial Provisions) Act 1991 1 2
Air Force Act 1955 2 2
Anatomy Act 1984 2 2
And whereas section 4(1) of the Extradition Act 1989 1 2
Army Act 1955 2 2
As required by section 413 of the Insolvency Act 1986 1 2
Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 1 2
Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 1 2
Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 1 2
Audit Commission Act 1998 2 2
Aviation Act 1982and by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 1 2
Bailiwick of Jersey by the Civil Aviation Act 1982 2 2
Banking Act 2009 2 2
British Settlements Acts 1887 and 1945, the Foreign Jurisdiction Act 1890 1 2
Business Improvement Districts Act (Northern Ireland) 2013 1 2
CRIMINAL LAW The Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006 1 2
Census (Confidentiality) Act 1991 1 2
Chapter V of Part I of the Financial Services Act 1986 1 2