Proposal for the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Remedial) Order 2011

Human Rights Joint Committee - Nineteenth Report
Proposal for the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Remedial) Order 2011

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 11 October 2011.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Recommendation

2 Background to our recommendation

The purpose and effect of the proposal for a draft order

Parliamentary scrutiny of remedial orders

3 Is it proper to proceed by way of non-urgent remedial order?

4 Does the draft Order remedy the incompatibility?

Introduction

(a) Do the proposals provide for a review by an appropriate tribunal?

(b) Do the proposals provide for consideration of the proportionality of continuing notification requirements?

(d) Treatment of child offenders

5 Other matters arising

Other matters: Ministerial approaches to remedial orders

Other matters: consistency across the UK?

Other matters: costs, convenience and remedial orders

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Declaration of Lords Interests

List of written evidence

1 Letter from the Chair, to Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Home Secretary, 28 June 2011

2 Letter from the Chair, to Assistant Chief Constable Michelle Skeer, Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), 5 July 2011

3 Letter from the Chair, to Mr Gordon Davidson, Head of the Public Protection and Mental Health Casework Group, National Offender Service (NOMS), Ministry of Justice, 5 July 2011

4 Letter to the Chair, from Assistant Chief Constable Michelle Skeer, ACPO lead for the Management of Sexual Offenders and Violent Offenders, 11 July 2011

5 Written Evidence submitted by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), Ministry of Justice, 12 July 2011

6 Letter to the Chair, from Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Home Secretary 19 July 2011

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