Police and Justice Act 2006

Police and Justice Act 2006
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act to establish a National Policing Improvement Agency; to make provision about police forces and police authorities and about police pensions; to make provision about police powers and about the powers and duties of community support officers, weights and measures inspectors and others; to make provision about the supply to the police and others of information contained in registers of death; to make further provision for combatting crime and disorder; to make further provision about certain inspectorates; to amend Part 12 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003; to amend the Computer Misuse Act 1990; to make provision about the forfeiture of indecent images of children; to provide for the conferring of functions on the Independent Police Complaints Commission in relation to the exercise of enforcement functions by officials involved with immigration and asylum; to amend the Extradition Act 2003; to make further provision about the use of live links in criminal proceedings; and for connected purposes.
Citation2006 c 48
Dates
Royal assent8 November 2006
Status: Current legislation
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Police and Justice Act 2006 (PJA) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It received royal assent on 8 November 2006.[1] The PJA created the National Policing Improvement Agency.[2] It changed how members of police authorities may be appointed and altered their duties.[3][4][5] It increased police officers' powers to impose bail conditions when releasing a suspect.[6] Along with the Serious Crime Act 2007, the PJA also updated the Computer Misuse Act 1990, which was regarded as outdated when the two statutes were passed.[7] Pursuant to the PJA, the scope of the Computer Misuse Act was extended to deal with denial-of-service attacks.[8]

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