Clause 2 - Certification commissioner
Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill
1:30 pm
David Hanson (Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office; Delyn, Labour)
The very scenario that the hon. Gentleman just outlined is covered by schedule 1, which deals with the certification commissioner. He will see that paragraph 5(1) states:
“It is the duty of the commissioner to secure that appropriate arrangements are made for giving information to victims about the case of each person who is granted a certificate”.
Once the certificate is granted, individual victims are informed of that; they are given the progress. Therefore, the circumstances that he outlined will not occur.