Clause 4
Fraud Bill [Lords]
11:45 am
Dominic Grieve (Shadow Attorney General & Shadow Spokesman On Community Cohesion, Law Officers (Assist the Home Affairs Team); Beaconsfield, Conservative)
There is another issue that only occurred to me as I read the clause again. The clause makes it clear that it applies to a person who occupies a position, not somebody who occupied a position. Will the Solicitor-General comment on that? As it is drafted, the clause creates the interesting consequence that it would apply to a person who was still in employment as an employee, but if he abused his position of trust after he had ceased to occupy that position he would not be caught by it. Is that what the Government intended?