Clause 170 - Delivery of seized property
Extradition Bill
3:00 pm
Mr Michael Wills (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; North Swindon, Labour)
I beg to move amendment No. 174, in
clause 170, page 90, line 31, at end insert—
'(7A) Subsection (2) applies to Scotland with the substitution of ''procurator fiscal'' for ''constable''.'.
This is a technical amendment. The Bill reflects the procedure in England and Wales that enables a police constable to hand over certain items, but it does not reflect the practice in Scotland, where procurators fiscal are responsible for such matters. The amendment remedies that anomaly.