Clause 9 - Defendant's benefit
Proceeds of Crime Bill
12:15 pm
Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath, Conservative)
When the Minister responds, will he be able to point to other legislation that has used the phrase ``general criminal conduct''? Rather like ``criminal lifestyle''—I do not want to reopen that debate now, as it would not be proper to do so—it strikes me as a slightly unusual phrase. I appreciate that the Minister may not be able to provide a precedent immediately, but it would be helpful to know where, if at all, that phrase has been used in other recent legislation. When my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield and I first looked at the Bill, it struck us that it raised some of the same issues as ``criminal lifestyle''.