Section 95 Sexual Offences Act 2003

Section 95 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 is about Part 2: supply of information by Secretary of State etc. It provides as follows:

(1)A report compiled under section 94 may be supplied by—

(a)the Secretary of State,

(aa). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)a Northern Ireland Department, or

(c)a person within section 94(2)(c),

to a person within subsection (2).

(2)The persons are—

(a)a chief officer of police (in Scotland, the chief constable of the Police Service of Scotland),

(b)the Serious Organised Crime Agency.

(3)Such a report may contain any information held—

(a)by the Secretary of State … or a Northern Ireland Department in connection with the exercise of a relevant function, or

(b)by a person within section 94(2)(c) in connection with the provision of services referred to there.

(4)Where such a report contains information within subsection (3), the person within subsection (2) to whom it is supplied—

(a)may retain the information, whether or not used for the purposes of the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of an offence under this Part, and

(b)may use the information for any purpose related to the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of offences (whether or not under this Part), but for no other purpose.

(5)Subsections (5) to (8) of section 94 apply in relation to this section as they apply in relation to section 94.

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