The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Categories of Offences) Order 2004
UK Statutory Instrument 2004 No. 3346 — creates 2 criminal offences.
- Made
- 15 December 2004
- In force from
- 29 December 2004
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Miscellaneous
- Made under
- Criminal Justice Act 2003, No. 3346 CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES The Criminal Justice Act 2003
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Section 103(2)(b) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 provides that a defendant’s propensity to commit offences of the kind with which he is charged may (without prejudice to any other way of doing so) be established by evidence that he has been convicted of an offence of the same category as the one with which he is charged. Section 103(4)(b) provides that two offences are of the same category as each other if they belong to the same category of offences prescribed for the purposes of that section by an order made by the Secretary of State. The categories prescribed by this Order are theft and sexual offences (persons under the age of 16). Each category consists of offences of the same type.
Offences created by this instrument
- SCHEDULE SCHEDULE · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- SCHEDULE SCHEDULE · Status not determined · Mixed — some elements strict, some not
What Parliament said about it
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- Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Categories Of Offences) Order 2004 Lords · Lords Chamber · 14 December 2004
How Parliament handled it
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Check the source
- This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
- Other instruments from 2004