The Serious Crime Act 2007 (Specified Anti-fraud Organisations) Order 2014

Section 68 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 (“the 2007 Act”) provides a power for a public authority to disclose information as a member of a specified anti-fraud organisation or otherwise in accordance with arrangements made by such an organisation, for the purposes of preventing fraud or a particular kind of fraud. An anti-fraud organisation is any unincorporated association, body corporate or other person which enables or facilitates any sharing of information to prevent fraud or a particular kind of fraud or which has any of these functions as its purpose or one of its purposes. Article 2 of this Order specifies five anti-fraud organisations for the purpose of section 68 of the 2007 Act.