Clause 31 - Tampering with the Register etc.
Identity Cards Bill
4:30 pm
Mr Richard Allan (Shadow Spokesperson for the Cabinet Office, Cabinet Office; Sheffield, Hallam, Liberal Democrat)
I assume that this is a probing amendment. It carries on our earlier debate about territoriality. I find subsection (4) comforting; as I read it, it places the offence of tampering with the national identity register in the same category as offences such as war crimes, certain categories of sexual offence and so on, which, if committed abroad, can be treated as though they had been committed in the United Kingdom. That is important because the whole clause is an anti-cracker clause.