Commentary Subsections (7) to (9)
62.Subsection (7) defines ‘chief officer’, ‘police force’ and ‘relevant prosecuting authority’. Subsection (8) contains transitional provisions in relation to the Serious Organised Crime Agency (necessary since at the time of the passage of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, the Bill establishing the Serious Organised Crime Agency, which is intended to subsume the National Crime Squad, was still before Parliament). Subsection (9) clarifies references to ‘the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency’ and ‘the Director’ of that agency in subsection (7).