Human Rights Joint Committee - Tenth Report
Legislative Scrutiny: Policing and Crime Bill

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords and the House of Commons to be printed 31 March 2009.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

Government Bills

1 Policing and Crime Bill

Background

Explanatory Notes

The effect of the Bill

Significant human rights issues

Inspection regime and human rights

Appointment of senior officers

Sexual offences and sex establishments

Strict liability offence

Rehabilitation orders

Premises closure orders

Extensions to preventative orders under the Sexual Offences Act

Children involved in prostitution

Alcohol misuse

Directions to individuals to leave a locality

Gangs injunctions

Proceeds of crime

Extradition

Undertakings to return an individual to a state from which he has been extradited

Extension of period before which an individual under provisional arrest must be brought before a judge

Use of live links in extradition hearings

Miscellaneous

Listing of care workers under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act

Retention, use and destruction of biometric data

Recommendations arising from our inquiry into policing protest

Conclusions and recommendations

Annex: Proposed Committee Amendments

Formal Minutes

List of written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Written Evidence

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Prepared 16 April 2009