UK Offence Report

The Approval of Enforcement Agencies Regulations 2000

UK Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 3279 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
13 December 2000
In force from
8 January 2001
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Courts, police, prisons and the administration of justice
Made under
Justice of the Peace Act 1997

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Section 125B of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, as inserted by the Access to Justice Act 1999, provides for the enforcement of certain warrants by enforcement agencies to be approved by a magistrates' courts committee, and section 31A of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997, also inserted by the Access to Justice Act 1999, provides for the approval of such agencies for this purpose. These Regulations set out the conditions that must be satisfied for an agency to be approved, and the procedure to be followed.

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