The Law Enforcement and Security (Separation Issues etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 allow for the implementation of the separation provisions in the UK-EU withdrawal agreement relating to law enforcement and security cooperation.
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Powers under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (193 KB, PDF)
The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 replaced 19 existing mechanisms to tackle anti-social behaviour with six reformed remedies. These are civil injunctions, criminal behaviour orders, community protection notices, public spaces protection orders, new closure powers and dispersal powers. The Act also introduced two new measures in relation to local involvement and accountability called the Community Trigger and Community Remedy. The Act also changed the law on dangerous dogs, introduced of new fire arm offence and brought in the criminalisation of forced marriage and breaching a Forced Marriage Protection Order. This briefing examines these changes, and provides recent statistics on anti-social behaviour offences.
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Powers under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (193 KB, PDF)
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‘Hate crime’ is used to describe a range of criminal behaviour that a victim or other person perceives to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards a person’s disability, race, religion, sexual orientation or transgender identity. These aspects of a person’s identity are referred to as ‘protected characteristics’. There have been recent calls to extend the protected characteristics to cover sex and gender. This would see misogyny become a hate crime.
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Since the passage of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018, the Government has been preparing for the UK to implement sanctions once it is no longer covered by the EU’s legal framework. The draft Sanctions (EU Exit) (Consequential Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 would amend existing sanctions regulations made under the 2018 act to ensure that references in other pieces of primary and secondary legislation are up to date.
