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House of Commons

Thursday 5 February 2009

Public Bill Committee

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Amendments which will comply with the required notice period at their next appearance

Coroners and Justice Bill

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Note

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

Committee [3 February].

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

39

Clause  5,  page  3,  line  40,  leave out subsection (2).

David Howarth

70

Clause  5,  page  4,  leave out lines 3 to 9.

David Howarth

71

Clause  7,  page  4,  line  27,  at end insert ‘or

(iii)

any other state official,’.

Public Bill Committee: 5 February 2009

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Coroners and Justice Bill, continued

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

40

Clause  11,  page  6,  line  4,  after ‘if’, insert ‘the matter has been referred to the Lord

Chief Justice and he or she is’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

42

Clause  11,  page  6,  line  6,  leave out ‘any of the reasons’ and insert ‘the reason’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

43

Clause  11,  page  6,  line  9,  leave out ‘reasons are’ and insert ‘reason is’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

41

Clause  11,  page  6,  leave out lines 11 to 16.

David Howarth

62

Page  6,  line  2,  leave out Clause 11.

David Howarth

63

Clause  12,  page  7,  line  3,  leave out ‘Secretary of State’ and insert ‘High Court on

application by the Secretary of State or by any interested person.

(1A)	The court may discontinue a certificate if it is satisfied that the certificate is no

longer necessary to prevent material or information being disclosed whose

disclosure would be seriously detrimental to national security.’.

David Howarth

64

Clause  12,  page  7,  line  6,  leave out ‘11(3)(a)’ and insert ‘[Certified

investigations](4)(b)’.

David Howarth

65

Clause  12,  page  7,  line  9,  leave out ‘11(3)’ and insert ‘[Certified

investigations](4)(b)’.

Public Bill Committee: 5 February 2009

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Coroners and Justice Bill, continued

David Howarth

66

Clause  12,  page  7,  line  15,  leave out from ‘must’ to end of line 17 and insert

‘continue with the inquest with the jury already summoned.’.

David Howarth

67

Clause  13,  page  7,  leave out lines 22 to 31 and insert—

‘(d)	disclosure for the purposes of an inquest for which a certificate exists

under section 11 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009; or’.

David Howarth

68

Clause  13,  page  7,  line  41,  after ‘Court’, insert ‘or Coroner’.

David Howarth

69

Clause  13,  page  7,  line  42,  after ‘judge’, insert ‘or coroner’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

44

Schedule  3,  page  123,  line  7,  leave out ‘relevant authority’ and insert ‘senior

coroner’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

46

Schedule  3,  page  123,  line  10,  leave out ‘relevant authority’ and insert ‘senior

coroner’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

47

Schedule  3,  page  123,  line  20,  leave out ‘70’ and insert ‘72’.

Public Bill Committee: 5 February 2009

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Coroners and Justice Bill, continued

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

45

Schedule  3,  page  123,  line  21,  leave out sub-sub-paragraph (b).

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

32

Schedule  3,  page  124,  line  41,  leave out ‘are not’ and insert ‘will continue’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

33

Schedule  3,  page  125,  line  3,  leave out ‘70’ and insert ‘72’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

34

Schedule  4,  page  127,  line  41,  leave out from ‘coroner’ to end of line 43.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

35

Schedule  4,  page  129,  line  27,  leave out first ‘may’ and insert ‘must’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

48

Schedule  4,  page  129,  line  30,  at end add—

‘(3)	The senior coroner may then request the relevant person to submit, within 3

months, a full update on any action he has taken, or alternatively detail the

reasons for any failure to take action.

(4)	The senior coroner must at the end of each year forward all reports and updates

to the Chief Coroner, who must present them to Parliament.’.

Public Bill Committee: 5 February 2009

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Coroners and Justice Bill, continued

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

36

Schedule  7,  page  134,  line  19,  after second ‘judge’, insert ‘or a senior coroner’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

37

Schedule  7,  page  134,  line  20,  leave out ‘70’ and insert ‘72’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

38

Schedule  7,  page  134,  line  24,  leave out ‘70th’ and insert ‘72nd’.

Bridget Prentice

24

Clause  31,  page  17,  line  11,  after ‘judge’ insert ‘, former judge or former coroner’.

Bridget Prentice

25

Schedule  8,  page  135,  line  35,  leave out sub-paragraph (1) and insert—

‘(1)	If requested to do so by the Chief Coroner, the Lord Chief Justice may

nominate a person within sub-paragraph (1A) to conduct an investigation into

a person’s death.

(1A)	A person is within this sub-paragraph if at the time of the nomination he or she

is—

(a)	a judge of the High Court,

(b)	a Circuit judge, or

(c)	a person who has held office as a judge of the Court of Appeal or of

the High Court (but no longer does so),

and is under the age of 75.

(1B)	The Chief Coroner may request a person who at the time of the request—

(a)	has held office as a senior coroner (but no longer does so), and

(b)	is under the age of 75,

to conduct an investigation into a person’s death.’.

Bridget Prentice

26

Schedule  8,  page  136,  line  1,  leave out from beginning to ‘has’ in line 3 and insert

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Coroners and Justice Bill, continued

‘If a person nominated or requested under this paragraph agrees to conduct the

investigation—

(a)	that person is under a duty to do so;

(b)	that person’.

Bridget Prentice

27

Schedule  8,  page  136,  line  9,  leave out ‘judge nominated under this paragraph’ and

insert ‘person who has been nominated or requested under this paragraph to conduct an

investigation and has agreed to do so’.

Bridget Prentice

28

Schedule  8,  page  136,  line  15,  leave out ‘a person who is not a senior coroner’ and

insert ‘the Chief Coroner or some other person who is a judge of the High Court or a

Circuit judge, or by a person who has held office as a judge of the Court of Appeal or of

the High Court’.

Bridget Prentice

29

Schedule  8,  page  136,  line  21,  leave out paragraphs (a) and (b) and insert—

‘(a)	where the person mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) is—

(i)	a judge of the High Court, or

(ii)	a person who has held office as a judge of the Court of Appeal

or of the High Court,

a judge of the Court of Appeal;

(b)	otherwise, a judge of the High Court.’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr Tim Boswell

31

Page  20,  line  9,  leave out Clause 35.

Andrew Mackinlay

21

Page  23,  line  26,  leave out Clause 38.

Public Bill Committee: 5 February 2009

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Coroners and Justice Bill, continued

Andrew Mackinlay

22

Page  136,  line  29,  leave out Schedule 9.

David Howarth

49

Clause  152,  page  100,  line  7,  leave out ‘any person’ and insert ‘an appropriate

person’.

David Howarth

50

Clause  152,  page  100,  line  8,  at end insert—

‘(1A)

No information-sharing order may authorise data to be shared in any way that

might result in the date being used for a purpose different from that for which its

collection was originally authorised.’.

David Howarth

51

Clause  152,  page  100,  line  9,  at end insert—

“‘an appropriate person” means any public authority within the meaning of

section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998, and, for the purposes of that

section, any use of data under an information sharing order shall count as

exercising a function of a public nature and shall in no circumstances

count as an act whose nature is private;’.

David Howarth

52

Clause  152,  page  100,  leave out lines 24 and 25.

David Howarth

53

Clause  152,  page  100,  line  27,  leave out ‘it is satisfied’ and insert ‘the following

conditions are met’.

David Howarth

54

Clause  152,  page  100,  leave out lines 29 to 32 and insert—

‘(a)	the order will not authorise data to be used in any way that implies any

new government policy or any deviation from previously announced

government policy, and “government policy” in this section means only

that policy to which there is clear and unambiguous reference in the

speeches or other remarks of Ministers during the passage of a bill or bills

in Parliament,

(b)	the order is proportionate to the policy objective it seeks to further, and’.

David Howarth

55

Clause  152,  page  100,  line  33,  leave out from ‘order’ to end of line 35 and insert

‘does not, other that with that person’s consent, interfere with or restrict any person’s right

to or interest in privacy, whether that right or interest arises under any statute or at

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Revised 5 February 2009