Clause 1 - Amendment of the Criminal Law Act 1967
Criminal Law (Amendment) (Householder Protection) Bill
3:45 pm
Mr Stephen Pound (Ealing North, Labour)
Mr. Cook, you will forgive me for allowing my mind to wander briefly at the prospect of an officer on the bridge of a Type 23 frigate having someone pull up alongside in a rigid inflatable boat and try to invade the ship. I think that the defence would probably be fairly strong in that case, not to say robust. However, the point about vehicles is correct. We are not talking about someone occupying a vehicle as their residence—that is not what the Bill says—but the difficulty is that such a case could be affected. When the Theft Act 1968 is prayed aid we must consider all the ramifications—not as an intellectual exercise but as a matter of life and death.
I respect the hon. Member for Newark, but the purpose of my amendments, on which I am just finishing—
Mr. Mitchellrose—