What the official record says
This Act is the Serious Fraud Office (Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Act . come into force on the day after the date on which this Act receives the Royal assent. The rest of this Act comes into force 21 days after the date on which this Act receives the Royal assent. This Act binds the Crown. The purposes of this Act are— to repeal the Serious Fraud Office Act 1990 and to provide for matters consequential on the abolition of the Serious Fraud Office; and to vest control of the documents of the Serious Fraud Office in the police, while continuing the protection given to those documents under that repealed Act; and to empower courts, during a transitional period, to order persons to produce documents and supply information that constitutes evidentiary material of offending in the con