Clause 45 - Persons acting in an anti-social manner
Police Reform Bill [Lords]
5:30 pm
Mr John Denham (Minister of State (Police, Courts and Drugs), Home Office; Southampton, Itchen, Labour)
Clause 45 centres on the ability to ask for a name and address from someone believed to be acting in an antisocial manner. It has some read-across to this morning's debate on accredited community safety officers and CSOs being able to do so. It would be strange if, through earlier legislation, CSOs and ACSOs had the power to ask for a name and address but a police officer did not. The clause therefore completes the picture.
There is wording that answers the hon. Gentleman's question. The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 gives the definition of antisocial behaviour as acting
''in a manner that caused or was likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons not of the same household''.
We will, under a later set of amendments, debate the phrase,
''not of the same household'',
but that definition is the basis that we are relying on in the clause.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 45 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clauses 46 to 48 ordered to stand part of the Bill.