This Order prescribes the grade of Deputy Director of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (“SOCA”) as the prescribed level for the purposes of section 44(1) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. The effect of section 44 of that Act is that the Director General of SOCA cannot delegate his functions under section 43 (designation of SOCA staff as persons having the powers of constable etc.) to an employee of that Agency who is employed in a grade lower than the grade of Deputy Director of SOCA.