Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

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Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to establish the Assets Recovery Agency and make provision about the appointment of its Director and his functions (including Revenue functions), to provide for confiscation orders in relation to persons who benefit from criminal conduct and for restraint orders to prohibit dealing with property, to allow the recovery of property which is or represents property obtained through unlawful conduct or which is intended to be used in unlawful conduct, to make provision about money laundering, to make provision about investigations relating to benefit from criminal conduct or to property which is or represents property obtained through unlawful conduct or to money laundering, to make provision to give effect to overseas requests and orders made where property is found or believed to be obtained through criminal conduct, and for connected purposes.
Citation	2002 c. 29
Introduced by	David Blunkett (Home Secretary) (Commons) Baroness Scotland QC (Lords)
Territorial extent	England and Wales; Scotland; Northern Ireland
Dates
Royal assent	24 July 2002[1]
Commencement	24 March 2003[2]
Other legislation
Repeals/revokes	Drug Trafficking Act 1994 ss.1-54; Proceeds of Crime Act 1995 ss.1-13; Crime and Disorder Act 1998 s.83[3]
Amended by	Serious Crime Act 2007
Relates to	Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, Serious Crime Act 2015
Status: Amended
Records of Parliamentary debate relating to the statute from Hansard, at TheyWorkForYou
Text of statute as originally enacted
Text of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c. 29) (POCA) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provides for the confiscation or civil recovery of the proceeds from crime and contains the principal money laundering legislation in the UK.