Counter-Terrorism Bill
AMENDMENTS
TO BE MOVED
IN COMMITTEE
[Supplementary to the Third Marshalled List]
| BARONESS MILLER OF CHILTHORNE DOMER |
| Insert the following new Clause |
| "Inquests: intercept evidence |
(1) | In section 18(7) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (c. 23), after paragraph (c) insert |
"(d) | a disclosure to a coroner or to a person appointed as counsel to an inquest or to members of a jury or to any properly interested person where |
(i) | the coroner holding the inquest is a judge of the High Court; and |
(ii) | the coroner has ordered the disclosure to be made to the coroner alone or (as the case may be) to the coroner and the person appointed as counsel to the inquest or to members of a jury or to any properly interested person." |
(2) | In that section, after subsection (8A) insert |
"(8B) | A coroner shall not order a disclosure under subsection (7)(d) except where the coroner is satisfied that the exceptional circumstances of the case make the disclosure essential to enable the matters that are required to be ascertained by the inquest to be ascertained." |
(3) | In that section, after subsection (11) insert |
"(11A) | References in this section to a coroner apply only where the coroner is a judge of the High Court." |
(4) | This section has effect in relation to inquests that have begun, but have not been concluded, before the day on which it comes into force as well as to inquests beginning on or after that day." |
| BARONESS MILLER OF CHILTHORNE DOMER |
| BARONESS FALKNER OF MARGRAVINE |
| Page 62, line 7, at end insert "unless ownership of the premises referred to in paragraph (b) has changed since the order requiring access to be granted was made, or other circumstances have changed such that it would no longer be within the controlled person's power to grant access." |
| Page 62, line 36, at end insert "unless ownership of the premises referred to in paragraph (b) has changed since the order requiring access to be granted was made, or other circumstances have changed such that it would no longer be within the controlled person's power to grant access." |
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