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Amendments proposed to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill - continued	House of Commons

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Mr Richard Allan
Mr A. J. Beith

229

*Clause 58, page 61, line 46, leave out 'may' and insert 'must'.

Mr Richard Allan
Mr A. J. Beith

219

*Clause 58, page 62, line 3, leave out subsections (8) and (9).

Mr Richard Allan
Mr A. J. Beith

230

*Clause 58, page 62, line 3, leave out 'may' and insert 'must'.

Mr Richard Allan
Mr A. J. Beith

231

*Clause 58, page 62, line 4, leave out 'may include' and insert 'is'.

Mr Richard Allan
Mr A. J. Beith

228

*Clause 59, page 62, line 40, leave out from 'which' to end of line 43 and insert 'of their determination and the reasons for it, subject to excluding any matters that would be contrary to the public interest'.

Mr Richard Allan
Mr A. J. Beith

220

*Clause 60, page 64, line 44, leave out 'may' and insert 'shall'.

Mr Richard Allan
Mr A. J. Beith

221

*Clause 60, page 64, line 47, leave out from beginning to end of line 7 on page 65 and insert 'represented by a legal representative of his choice'.

Mr Richard Allan
Mr A. J. Beith

222

*Clause 60, page 65, line 41, leave out 'and' and insert ', bearing in mind'.

Mr Richard Allan
Mr A. J. Beith

223

*Clause 60, page 65, line 45, leave out from 'or' to end of line 46.

Mr Harry Cohen

Clause 62, page 66, line 16, after '(1)', insert 'Subject to subsection (3A),'.

Mr Harry Cohen

Clause 62, page 66, line 35, at end insert—

'(3A) Where parts of a code of practice or draft code of practice relate to the processing of personal data, the code shall not be issued by the Secretary of State unless those parts of the code have been reviewed by the Data Protection Commissioner.

(3B) The Data Protection Commissioner may require the Secretary of State to include in any code of practice issued by him a statement concerning the processing of personal data.'.

Mr Charles Clarke

Clause 68, page 72, line 26, after 'section' insert '6(2A),'.

Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Oliver Heald
Mr Peter Luff

Clause 71, page 75, line 7, at end insert '"technical obligations under this Act" means steps to be specified or described in a notice pursuant to section 12(2) and steps needed to be taken pursuant to section 21(4) in order to be capable of obtaining any communications data.'.

Mr Charles Clarke

188

Schedule 3, page 87, line 26, leave out '(ae)' and insert '(ea) for the purposes of any'.

Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Oliver Heald
Mr Peter Luff

Clause 73, page 76, line 43, after 'section', insert 'and section 12'.

Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Oliver Heald
Mr Peter Luff

Clause 73, page 76, line 45, at end insert—

'( ) Section 12 of this Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint, save that he shall not appoint such a day unless he has made a statement to the House of Commons to the effect:

(a) that such obligations as it appears to him reasonable to impose for the purpose of section 12(1) of this Act would be—

(i) technically competent for the purpose; and

(ii) proportionate thereto; and

(b) that he has assessed the costs of compliance and—

(i) that they are reasonable and

(ii) that he shall make a contribution thereto;

and he shall specify the amount of that contribution.'.

Mr Charles Clarke

189

Clause 73, page 77, line 13, at end insert—

'(d) in a case in which the conduct consists in surveillance mentioned in section 45(4).'.

Mr Charles Clarke

190

Clause 73, page 77, line 19, leave out paragraphs (e) and (f) and insert—

'(e) the Commissioners of Customs and Excise;

(f) the British Transport Police.

( ) In relation to so much of Part II of this Act as has effect in relation to any public authority by virtue of—

(a) an order made by the Secretary of State specifying that authority for the purposes of section 29, or

(b) an order designating that authority for the purposes of section 39,

that authority shall be treated as an authority specified in subsection (4) to the extent that the Secretary of State by order directs that the specification or, as the case may be, designation of that authority for the purposes of that section is to extend to Scotland.'.

NEW CLAUSES

Offences

Miss Ann Widdecombe
Mr Oliver Heald
Mr Peter Luff

NC1

To move the following Clause:—

'.—(1) A person is guilty of an offence if—

(a) with intent to impede access to protected information or the putting of that information into an intelligible form, he fails to comply, in accordance with any section 46 notice, with a requirement of that notice to disclose a key to protected information; and

(b) he is a person who has possession of the key.

(2) A person is guilty of an offence if—

(a) he fails to comply, in accordance with any section 46 notice, with a requirement of that notice to disclose a key to protected information;

(b) he is a person who has had possession of the key, but that key was not in his possession after the giving of the notice and before the time by which he was required to disclose it; and

(c) with intent to impede access to protected information or the putting of that information into an intelligible form, that he did not, before that time, make a disclosure, to the person to whom he was required to disclose the key, of all such information in his possession as was required by that person to enable possession of the key to be obtained.

(3) In proceedings against any person for an offence under this section it shall be a defence (subject to subsection (4)) for that person to show—

(a) that it was not reasonably practicable for him to make a disclosure of the key before the time by which he was required to do so;

(b) where the key was not in his possession at that time, that it was not reasonably practicable for him, before that time, to make such a disclosure as is mentioned in subsection (2)(c); and

(c) that as soon after that time as it was reasonably practicable for him to make a disclosure of the key or (if earlier) of sufficient information to enable possession of the key to be obtained, he made such a disclosure to the person to whom he was required to disclose the key.

(4) Except in a case where there is no authorisation for the purposes of section 47, in proceedings for an offence under this section a person shall have a defence under subsection (3) only if he also shows that it was not reasonably practicable for him to comply with the requirement in the manner allowed by that section.

(5) In proceedings against any person for an offence under this section it shall be a defence for that person to show that—

(a) at all material times he used due diligence to store the key which he had or had had in his possession; and

(b) that where the key was not in his possession after the giving of the notice and before the time by which he was required to disclose it, that he did before that time, make a disclosure to the person to whom he was required to disclose the key, of all such information to his possession as was required by that person to enable possession of the key to be obtained.

(6) Where a person is being proceeded against for an offence under this section, then at any stage of the proceedings, if evidence has been given of his having failed to comply with any requirement of a section 46 notice to disclose a key to protected information, the following evidence shall be admissible for the purpose of proving that he had an intention to impede access to protected information or the putting of that information into an intelligible form:—

(a) evidence that he has or has had in his possession other information of value on grounds falling within section 46(3) or likely to be of value for purposes connected with the exercise or performance by any pubilc authority of any statutory power or statutory duty; and

(b) provided that seven days notice in writing has been given to him of the intention to prove the conviction, evidence that he has within the [five] years preceding the date of the offence charged been convicted of any offence carrying a maximum sentence on conviction on indictment of five years imprisonment or more.

(7) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable—

(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or to a fine, or to both;

(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or to both.'.