The Police and Justice Act 2006 (PJA) is an
act of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative suprema ...
. It received
royal assent
Royal assent is the method by which a monarch formally approves an act of the legislature, either directly or through an official acting on the monarch's behalf. In some jurisdictions, royal assent is equivalent to promulgation, while in other ...
on 8 November 2006. The PJA created the
National Policing Improvement Agency. It changed how members of
police authorities may be appointed and altered their duties.
It increased police officers' powers to impose
bail conditions when releasing a suspect. Along with the
Serious Crime Act 2007, the PJA also updated the
Computer Misuse Act 1990
The Computer Misuse Act 1990 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, introduced partly in response to the decision in ''R v Gold & Schifreen'' (1988) 1 AC 1063 (see below). Critics of the bill complained that it was introduced hastily ...
, which was regarded as outdated when the two statutes were passed. Pursuant to the PJA, the scope of the Computer Misuse Act was extended to deal with
denial-of-service attack
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connect ...
s.
See also
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Police Act
Notes
Sources
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External links
The Police and Justice Act 2006 as amended from the
National Archives.
The Police and Justice Act 2006 as originally enacted from the
National Archives.
Explanatory notesto the Police and Justice Act 2006.
United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 2006
Computing legislation
Anti-social behaviour
Police legislation in the United Kingdom
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