New clause 5 - Removal of unauthorised encampments and waste
Anti-social Behaviour Bill
10:30 am
'.—The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 is amended as follows:
In Section 61 (Power to remove trespassers on land)
(a) For subsection (1) there is substituted—
''(1) If the senior police office present at the scene reasonably believes that two or more persons are trespassing on land and are present there with the common purpose of
residing there for any period and that reasonable steps have been taken by or on behalf of the occupier to ask them to leave he may direct those persons or any of them to leave the land and to remove any vehicles, other property or waste they have with them on the land or which appears to the officer to be connected to their presence on the land.''.
(b) Subsection (2) is omitted.
(c) In Subsection (4) there is inserted after paragraph (b)—
''(c) Fails to remove any vehicles, other property or waste which he has with him on the land or which appears to be connected to his presence on the land.''.
(d) In Subsection (6) paragraph (b) is omitted.'.—[Mr. Paice.]
Brought up, and read the First time.