Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000

Chapter IU.K. General

71 Access to driver licensing records.U.K.

(1)The Secretary of State may make any information held by him for the purposes of Part III of the M1Road Traffic Act 1988 available F1... for use by constables [F2and [F3National Crime Agency officers]].

(2)In respect of any information made available F4... under subsection (1), the Secretary of State may by regulations—

(a)determine the purposes for which [F5information may be made available to] constables [F6and [F7National Crime Agency officers]] F8...,

(b)determine the circumstances in which any of the information [F9made available to them] may be further disclosed by them.

(3)Before making any regulations applying in respect of [F10constables of the Police Service of Scotland], the Secretary of State must, to the extent to which the regulations will so apply, consult the Scottish Ministers.

(4)In this section [F11—

“constables” includes —

[F12(a) persons appointed by a chief constable under paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (civilian staff of police forces outside London),

(aa)persons appointed by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis under paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to that Act (civilian staff of metropolitan police force),]

[F13(b)police staff within the meaning of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act  2012,]

(c)police support staff (within the meaning of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000), and

(d)persons employed by the British Transport Police Authority under section 27(1) of the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 who are under the direction and control of the Chief Constable of the British Transport Police Force],

“information” means information held in any form.

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72 Failure to secure regular attendance at school.E+W

(1)In section 444 of the M2Education Act 1996 (failure to secure regular attendance at school)—

(a)after subsection (1) there is inserted—

“(1A)If in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (1) the parent knows that his child is failing to attend regularly at the school and fails without reasonable justification to cause him to do so, he is guilty of an offence.”,

(b)in subsection (8), for “this section” there is substituted “ subsection (1) ”,

(c)after that subsection there is inserted—

“(8A)A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1A) is liable on summary conviction—

(a)to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale, or

(b)to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months,

or both.

(8B)If, on the trial of an offence under subsection (1A), the court finds the defendant not guilty of that offence but is satisfied that he is guilty of an offence under subsection (1), the court may find him guilty of that offence.”

(2)This section does not apply to an offence committed before the section comes into force.

73 Parenting orders: responsible officer.E+W

In section 8(8) of the M3Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (parenting orders: persons who may be specified as the responsible officer), after paragraph (b) there is inserted—

“(bb)a person nominated by a person appointed as chief education officer under section 532 of the M4Education Act 1996”.

74 Amendments.E+W

Schedule 7 (which makes minor and consequential amendments) is to have effect.