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Specialist Printing Equipment and Materials (Offences) Act 2015

2015 CHAPTER 16

An Act to make provision for an offence in respect of supplies of specialist printing equipment and related materials; and for connected purposes.[26th March 2015]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1Offence of supplying specialist printing equipment knowing it will be used for criminal purposes

(1) A person commits an offence if—

(a) the person supplies any specialist printing equipment, and

(b) in making the supply, the person knows that the equipment will be or is intended to be used for the purposes of criminal conduct.

(2) “Criminal conduct” means conduct which constitutes—

(a) an offence under the law of England and Wales, or

(b) an offence under the law of a country outside England and Wales which, if it took place in England and Wales, would constitute an offence in England and Wales.

(3) An individual guilty of an offence under this section is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years, or to a fine, or to both.

(4) Any other person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on conviction on indictment to a fine.