1 The Serious Fraud Office
Criminal Justice Act 1987 (1987 c 38) | Legislation

Part I Fraud

Serious Fraud Office

1  The Serious Fraud Office

(1)     A Serious Fraud Office shall be constituted for England and Wales and Northern Ireland.

(2)     The Attorney General shall appoint a person to be the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (referred to in this Part of this Act as “the Director”), and he shall discharge his functions under the superintendence of the Attorney General.

(3)     The Director may investigate any suspected offence which appears to him on reasonable grounds to involve serious or complex fraud.

(4)     The Director may, if he thinks fit, conduct any such investigation in conjunction either with the police or with any other person who is, in the opinion of the Director, a proper person to be concerned in it.

(5)     The Director may—

(a)     institute and have the conduct of any criminal proceedings which appear to him to relate to such fraud; and

(b)     take

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