Amendments proposed to the Terrorism Bill - continued House of Commons

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Mr David Winnick

32

Clause     23,     page     22,     line     45,     after 'authority', insert 'or High Court Judge'.

   

Mr Elfyn Llwyd
Angus Robertson
Mr Alex Salmond
Hywel Williams
Adam Price
Stewart Hosie

66

*Clause     23,     page     23,     line     6,     at end insert—

    '(6A)   In this section "judicial authority" means—

      (a) in England and Wales, a judge of the High Court; and

      (b) in Scotland, a judge of the Court of Session.'.

   

Mr Elfyn Llwyd
Angus Robertson
Mr Alex Salmond
Hywel Williams
Adam Price
Stewart Hosie

67

*Clause     23,     page     23,     line     11,     at end insert—

    '(7A)   This section shall not apply in a case in which the judicial authority considering the case has not considered representations made by either the person detained or a representative of the person detained.'.

   

David Davis
Mr Dominic Grieve
Patrick Mercer
Mr Edward Garnier

16

Clause     23,     page     23,     line     11,     at end add—

    '(8)   The judicial authority for the extension of any period of detention under Schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000 shall be a senior circuit judge.

    (9)   An appeal shall lie from any decision of the judicial authority to a judge of the High Court.'.

   

David Davis
Mr Dominic Grieve
Patrick Mercer
Mr Edward Garnier

14

Page     21,     line     24,     leave out Clause 23.


   

David Davis
Mr Dominic Grieve
Patrick Mercer
Mr Edward Garnier

12

Clause     24,     page     23,     line     19,     at end insert—

    '(1A)   In Schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000, in paragraph 23(1) (grounds on which a review officer may authorise continued detention), at end of paragraph (a) add "but after the expiry of a period of fourteen days detention no further detention shall be authorised solely to obtain evidence by questioning.".'.

   

David Davis
Mr Dominic Grieve
Patrick Mercer
Mr Edward Garnier

13

Clause     24,     page     23,     line     28,     at end insert 'but after the expiry of a period of fourteen days detention, no further detention shall be authorised solely to obtain evidence by questioning.'.

   

David Davis
Mr Dominic Grieve
Patrick Mercer
Mr Edward Garnier

17

Clause     24,     page     23,     line     40,     at end add—

    '(6)   The Secretary of State shall, prior to the coming into force of sections 23 and 24, carry out a review of Code C of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act and produce a separate code to cover all detention under the Terrorism Act 2000 lasting for longer than seven days.

    (7)   Such code shall include provision to allow for the questioning of a terrorist suspect after charge, subject to leave being obtained from the judicial authority, and any such questioning shall be treated for all evidential purposes as if it had taken place prior to charge.'.

   

David Davis
Mr Dominic Grieve
Patrick Mercer
Mr Edward Garnier

15

Page     23,     line     12,     leave out Clause 24.


   

Mr Mark Oaten
Mr Alistair Carmichael
Mr David Heath
Lynne Featherstone

82

*Clause     21,     page     19,     leave out lines 7 to 25 and insert—

    '(5A)   The cases in which an organisation promotes or encourages terrorism for the purposes of subsection (5)(c) include any case in which a person whilst acting in the capacity of an officer of that organisation commits an offence under sections 1 or 2 of the Terrorism Act 2005.'.

   

Mr William Cash

53

Page     19,     line     4,     leave out Clause 21.


   

Mr Mark Oaten
Mr Alistair Carmichael
Mr David Heath
Lynne Featherstone

87

*Clause     5,     page     7,     line     22,     after 'any', insert 'relevant'.

   

Mr Mark Oaten
Mr Alistair Carmichael
Mr David Heath
Lynne Featherstone

88

*Clause     5,     page     7,     line     27,     at end insert—

    '( )   In this section "relevant conduct" means conduct of a description specified in an order made by statutory instrument by the Secretary of State.

    ( )   A statutory instrument containing an order made by the Secretary of State under this section may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.'.


   

David Davis
Mr Dominic Grieve
Patrick Mercer
Mr Edward Garnier

57

*Clause     6,     page     7,     line     32,     leave out 'or suspects'.

   

Mr Mark Oaten
Mr Alistair Carmichael
Mr David Heath
Lynne Featherstone

89

*Clause     6,     page     7,     line     32,     after 'or', insert 'reasonably'.

   

David Davis
Mr Dominic Grieve
Patrick Mercer
Mr Edward Garnier

58

*Clause     6,     page     8,     line     26,     at end add—

    '(4A)   It shall be a defence to an offence under section 6 (1), for the defendant to show that he reported any suspicion to the police or in the case of an employee to his employer or other person in authority over him.'.


   

Mr Mark Oaten
Mr Alistair Carmichael
Mr David Heath
Lynne Featherstone

42

Clause     8,     page     10,     line     13,     at end add—

    '(7)   It shall be a defence to a charge brought under this section for an accused person to show—

      (a) that he had no reasonable grounds for believing that the place was a place used for terrorist training; or

      (b) that the accused was in the place used for terrorist training for legitimate research purposes.'.

   

David Davis
Mr Dominic Grieve
Patrick Mercer
Mr Edward Garnier

59

*Clause     8,     page     10,     line     14,     at end add—

    (7)   It shall be a defence to an offence under this section for a defendant to show on the balance of probabilities that his attendance at any place used for terrorist training was—

      (a) for the purpose of preventing the instruction or training taking place; or

      (b) for the purpose of gathering information about the instruction or training; or

      (c) involuntary.

   

Mr Elfyn Llwyd
Angus Robertson
Mr Alex Salmond
Hywel Williams
Adam Price
Stewart Hosie

64

*Page     9,     line     20,     leave out Clause 8.


   

Mr Elfyn Llwyd
Angus Robertson
Mr Alex Salmond
Hywel Williams
Adam Price
Stewart Hosie

65

*Clause     12,     page     12,     line     28,     at end insert—

    '(2A)   The courts shall not regard or refer to an offence of trespass under section 128(1) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 as a terrorist offence unless they are satisfied that the offence is also an offence under section 5 of this Act.'.


   

Mr Mark Oaten
Mr Alistair Carmichael
Mr David Heath
Lynne Featherstone

90

*Clause     17,     page     16,     line     3,     leave out 'and'.

   

Mr Mark Oaten
Mr Alistair Carmichael
Mr David Heath
Lynne Featherstone

91

*Clause     17,     page     16,     line     5,     at end insert 'and

      (c) the action involves harm or the threat of harm to a national of the United Kingdom.'.


   

David Davis
Mr Dominic Grieve
Patrick Mercer
Mr Edward Garnier

60

*Page     16,     line     34,     leave out Clause 18.


   

Mr Richard Burden
John Austin

33

Clause     20,     page     17,     leave out lines 31 to 33.

   

Mr John Denham
Helen Goodman
Richard Burden
Jon Trickett

69

*Clause     20,     page     17,     line     33,     at end add 'but in respect of Clauses 1, 2, 3, 4 and 17 such an action includes any action that is intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate the population, or to compel a government or an international organisation to do or to abstain from doing any act.'.

   

Mr William Cash
Mr Mark Oaten
Mr Alistair Carmichael
Mr David Heath
Lynne Featherstone

52

Clause     20,     page     17,     leave out lines 38 and 39.


   

Mr Mark Oaten
Mr Alistair Carmichael
Mr David Heath
Lynne Featherstone

83

*Clause     31,     page     31,     line     19,     at end insert—

    '(8)   Sections 17 and 18 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 shall cease to have effect.'.


   

Mr Robert Marshall-Andrews
Alan Simpson
Jeremy Corbyn
Ms Diane Abbott
Mrs Linda Riordan
John McDonnell

Clare ShortMs Katy ClarkKelvin Hopkins
Mr Robert N. Wareing

61

*Clause     33,     page     32,     line     19,     at end add 'save and except where such government or international government organisation has, at the time of such use or threat, directly or indirectly been persistently responsible for acts that are in breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.'.

   

Mr Douglas Hogg

75

*Clause     33,     page     32,     line     19,     at end insert—

    '( )   for the purposes of this Act actions to be done outside the United Kingdom not involving the citizens of the United Kingdom or their property or the property of the government of the United Kingdom or of corporations registered in the United Kingdom or of businesses having an office in the United Kingdom and but for this subsection to be treated as acts of terrorism or Convention offences shall only be so treated if such actions are done with the intent of causing death or injury to persons who are not members of the armed or the security forces of the country where the acts are to be committed or are otherwise engaged in the administration of that country'.

 
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