Unified Contract (Crime) July 2008

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About this contract

The Unified Contract (Crime) July 2008 came into effect at 00:01 on 14 July 2008.

The Standard Terms are closely based on those for civil providers. We've amended and updated them for crime providers. 

The Specification is largely unchanged from the Specification in the General Criminal Contract (January 2008) but we've reordered it to make it easy to understand and work with.

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What we've changed following consultation

We had a full consultation with The Law Society on all the contract documents. We've incorporated a number of their further suggestions.

Key changes include:

Our powers to amend the contract are now limited to:

Other changes

We consulted on a number of other changes. We have agreed that, for the Unified Contract (Crime) July 2008:

For more information

See the Documents panel on the right hand side of this page for:

We held an application process for the Unified Contract (Crime) July 08.

For more information relating to the Standard Monthly Payment Protocol, please visit the Civil Contracting reconciliation pages.

The consultation documents are also available to read.

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Last updated: 16 July 2008

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