Clause 1 - Offences to which the Act applies
Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill
10:45 am
Laurence Robertson (Shadow Minister, Northern Ireland; Tewkesbury, Conservative)
I suggest the Bill is so shameful that they did not want to print too many copies of it.
As I was saying, I am sure it is not the Minister’s intention that every single offender could escape punishment regardless of what they did. I should be grateful if the Minister told the Committee the precise purpose of including the phrase,
“(whether committed for purposes of terrorism or not)”,
in the Bill.