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House of Commons

Tuesday 3rd July 2007

Public Bill Committee

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Other Amendments not tabled within the required notice period are marked thus

Serious Crime Bill [Lords]

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Note

The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order of the

Committee [26th June 2007].

Mr Douglas Hogg

109

Clause  15,  page  9,  line  29,  at end insert ‘or non-disclosure is authorised under any

other enactment’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

Nick Herbert

110

Clause  17,  page  10,  line  15,  leave out ‘5 years’ and insert ‘1 year’.

Nick Herbert

176

Clause  17,  page  10,  line  22,  leave out ‘5 years’ and insert ‘1 year’.

Mr Jeremy Browne

9

Clause  17,  page  10,  line  24,  leave out subsections (5) and (6).

Mr Douglas Hogg

111

Clause  17,  page  10,  line  24,  leave out ‘does not’ and insert ‘shall’.

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Mr Douglas Hogg

112

Clause  17,  page  10,  line  25,  at end insert ‘unless a period of not less than 12 months

has elapsed since the date when the order, or any provision of an order, ceases to be in

force.’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

113

Clause  18,  page  10,  line  29,  at beginning insert ‘Subject to subsections (4) and

(4A)’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

114

Clause  18,  page  11,  line  4,  at end insert—

‘(4A)

If a change in circumstances is identified under subsection (4), the court may vary

the serious crime prevention order to the extent that the court considers that the

order has become unfair to the subject of the order or that the terms of the order

are disproportionate having regard to that person’s interests or to the public

interest.’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

115

Clause  19,  page  11,  line  41,  at end insert—

‘(3A)

If a change in circumstances is identified under subsection (3) and the court

considers that the order or any provision thereof has—

(a)	become unfair to the subject of the order, or

(b)	disproportionate having regard to the interests of that person and the

public interest,

the court may discharge the order or any provision thereof to the extent that it

thinks fit.’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

116

Clause  20,  page  12,  line  19,  leave out paragraph (a).

Mr Douglas Hogg

117

Clause  20,  page  12,  line  23,  leave out ‘a serious’ and insert ‘an’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

118

Clause  20,  page  12,  line  23,  at end insert ‘in respect of which has been sentenced to

an immediate term of imprisonment of not less than seven years and to whom section

1(ab) of this Act applies’.

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Mr Douglas Hogg

119

Clause  20,  page  12,  line  25,  leave out ‘it has reasonable grounds to believe’ and

insert ‘is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

120

Clause  20,  page  12,  line  38,  leave out ‘appropriate’ and insert ‘necessary, just and

proportionate’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

121

Clause  20,  page  12,  line  44,  leave out from ‘concerned;’ to the end of line 1 on page

13.

Mr Douglas Hogg

122

Clause  21,  page  13,  line  7,  leave out ‘a serious’ and insert ‘an’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

123

Clause  21,  page  13,  line  10,  leave out ‘a serious’ and insert ‘an’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

124

Clause  21,  page  13,  line  15,  leave out ‘has reasonable grounds to believe’ and

insert ‘is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

125

Clause  21,  page  13,  line  17,  at end insert ‘or if it considers that there has been a

change of circumstances and that, by reason of that change, the order has become unfair

to any person affected by it including the person who is the subject of the order’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

126

Clause  21,  page  13,  line  29,  at end insert ‘or by the person who is the subject of the

order’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

127

Clause  24,  page  15,  line  9,  at end insert—

‘(1A)

An appeal against a decision of the High Court in relation to a serious crime

prevention order may be made to the Court of Appeal by—

(a)	the person who is the subject of the order;

(b)	the relevant applicant authority; or

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(c)	by any person who was given an opportunity to make representations in

the proceedings concerned by virtue of section 10(1), (2) or (as the case

may be) (3).’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

128

Clause  27,  page  16,  line  4,  at end insert ‘only where the court considers it just and

proportionate to make such an order of forfeiture’.

Mr Vernon Coaker

36

Clause  28,  page  16,  line  28,  after ‘to’, insert ‘—

(a)

’.

Mr Vernon Coaker

37

Clause  28,  page  16,  line  29,  leave out ‘as if it were’ and insert ‘; and

(b)	the company’s winding up;

as it applies in relation to’.

Mr Vernon Coaker

38

Clause  28,  page  16,  line  30,  leave out ‘(petition for’ and insert ‘for the winding up

of a company and the company’s winding up (’.

Mr Vernon Coaker

39

Clause  28,  page  16,  line  43,  leave out ‘has effect’ and insert ‘applies for the

purposes of this section’.

Mr Vernon Coaker

40

Clause  28,  page  17,  line  2,  after ‘appropriate,’, insert ‘in relation’.

Mr Vernon Coaker

41

Clause  28,  page  17,  line  3,  at end insert ‘and the relevant body’s winding up’.

Mr Vernon Coaker

42

Clause  28,  page  17,  line  9,  at end insert—

‘( )	No petition may be presented to, or order to wind up made by, a court in Scotland

by virtue of this section in respect of a company, partnership or relevant body

whose estate may be sequestrated under the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985

(c. 66).’.

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Mr Vernon Coaker

43

Clause  28,  page  17,  line  28,  leave out ‘Scotland or’.

Mr Vernon Coaker

44

Clause  29,  page  18,  line  8,  after ‘to’, insert ‘—

(a)

’.

Mr Vernon Coaker

45

Clause  29,  page  18,  line  8,  leave out ‘as if it were’ and insert ‘; and

(b)	the company’s winding up;

as it applies in relation to’.

Mr Vernon Coaker

46

Clause  29,  page  18,  line  9,  leave out ‘(petition for’ and insert ‘for the winding up of

a company and the company’s winding up (’.

Mr Vernon Coaker

47

Clause  29,  page  18,  line  22,  leave out ‘has effect’ and insert ‘applies for the

purposes of this section’.

Mr Vernon Coaker

48

Clause  29,  page  18,  line  25,  after ‘appropriate,’, insert ‘in relation’.

Mr Vernon Coaker

49

Clause  29,  page  18,  line  26,  at end insert ‘and the relevant body’s winding up’.

Nick Herbert

Mr Crispin Blunt

18

Clause  34,  page  22,  line  35,  leave out ‘civil’ and insert ‘criminal’.

Nick Herbert

Mr Crispin Blunt

Mr Douglas Hogg

19

Clause  34,  page  22,  line  36,  leave out subsection (2).

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Nick Herbert

Mr Crispin Blunt

20

Clause  35,  page  22,  line  40,  leave out ‘civil’ and insert ‘criminal’.

Nick Herbert

Mr Crispin Blunt

Mr Douglas Hogg

21

Clause  35,  page  23,  line  1,  leave out subsection (2).

Nick Herbert

Mr Crispin Blunt

22

Clause  35,  page  23,  line  3,  leave out subsection (3).

Mr Vernon Coaker

50

Clause  35,  page  23,  line  9,  leave out subsections (4) and (5) and insert—

‘(4)	The Crown Court, when exercising its jurisdiction in England and Wales under

this Part, is a criminal court for the purposes of Part 7 of the Courts Act 2003

(c. 39) (procedure rules and practice directions).’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

133

Schedule  2,  page  54,  line  28,  leave out paragraph 2.

Mr Douglas Hogg

134

Schedule  2,  page  55,  line  26,  leave out paragraph 7.

Mr Douglas Hogg

135

Schedule  2,  page  56,  line  17,  leave out paragraph 13.

Mr Douglas Hogg

136

Schedule  2,  page  57,  line  1,  leave out paragraph 17.

Mr Jeremy Browne

5

Clause  37,  page  23,  line  35,  at end add—

‘(3)	Notwithstanding this, the rules on admissibility of evidence to be observed in

such proceedings shall be the same as those observed in trials on indictment; and

no person shall be required in such proceedings to answer any question or to

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produce any document which he could not be required to answer or produce in

similar proceedings in a trial on indictment.’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

131

Clause  38,  page  23,  line  43,  at end insert—

‘(1A)

Where a law enforcement officer has retained an original document under

subsection (1) he shall—

(a)	on the request of the person who is the subject of the serious crime

prevention order; or

(b)	at the request of any person who was given the opportunity to make

representations in the proceedings concerned by virtue of section 10(1),

(2) or (as the case may be) (3);

provide that person with a copy of the retained document unless, on application

of a person mentioned in this subsection, a court to which an application is made

otherwise orders.’.

Nick Herbert

173

Clause  41,  page  25,  line  26,  leave out ‘foreseeable’ and insert ‘reasonable’.

Mr Douglas Hogg

152

Clause  42,  page  25,  line  31,  at beginning insert ‘at the time that he does the act’.

Mr Jeremy Browne

7

Clause  42,  page  25,  line  33,  at end add ‘; and

(c)	his act was unreasonable’.

Nick Herbert

174

Clause  43,  page  26,  line  12,  leave out ‘an’ and insert ‘a specified’.

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