Duty to keep NCA informed & disclose information: police forces
(1) The chief officers of each UK police force must keep the Director General informed of any information held by that police force which appears to the chief officer to be relevant to the exercise by the NCA of—
(a) the crime-reduction function,
(b) the criminal intelligence function, or
(c) functions conferred by the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
(2) Where the chief officer of such a police force informs the Director General of such information, the chief officer must disclose to the NCA any of that information which the Director General requests the chief officer to disclose.
(3) This paragraph does not require the chief officer of a police force to keep the Director General informed of information which appears to the chief officer to be information obtained (whether directly or indirectly) from the NCA.
Duty to keep police forces informed
(1) The Director General must keep the chief officers of each UK police force informed of any information obtained by the NCA in the exercise of any NCA function which appears to the Director General to be relevant to the exercise by that chief officer or any other member of that police force of any functions.
(2) This paragraph does not require the Director General to keep the chief officer of a police force informed of information which appears to the Director General to be information obtained (whether directly or indirectly) from that chief officer or any other member of that police force.
Duty to keep NCA informed: government bodies
(1) Each specified body must keep the Director General informed of any information held by that body which—
(a) is held in connection with the exercise of a relevant function of that body, and
(b) appears to that body to be relevant to the exercise by the NCA of—
(i) the crime-reduction function,
(ii) the criminal intelligence function, or
(iii) functions conferred by the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
(2) Where a specified body informs the Director General of such information, that body must disclose to the NCA any of that information which the Director General requests that body to disclose.
(3) This paragraph does not require a specified body to keep the Director General informed of information which appears to that body to be information obtained (whether directly or indirectly) from the NCA.
(4) This paragraph does not require the Director of the Serious Fraud Office to keep the Director General informed of, or to disclose to the NCA, any information obtained under section 2(2) or (3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (information which the Director of the SFO may require a person to produce etc).
Duty to keep government bodies informed
(1) The Director General must keep each specified body informed of any information obtained by the NCA in the exercise of any NCA function which appears to the Director General to be relevant to the exercise by that specified body of any relevant function for the purposes of carrying out activities to combat crime.
(2) This paragraph does not require the Director General to keep a specified body informed of information which appears to the Director General to be information obtained (whether directly or indirectly) from that body.
Meaning of “specified body” & “relevant function”
In paragraphs 5 and 6—
(a) “ specified body ” means a body specified in the first column of this table;
(b) “ relevant function ”, in relation to such a body, means a function that falls within the functions specified in relation to that body in the second column of this table.
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