Clause 28
Serious Crime Bill [Lords]
12:45 pm
Vernon Coaker (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Gedling, Labour)
The hon. Gentleman is right; as he says, the clause deals with companies that have breached a serious crime prevention order. In such cases, the applicant authorities can go back to the court to seek a winding-up order against such companies. The hon. Gentleman asks what sorts of offences the companies would have to have committed. The obvious answer is that if the company had not complied with the conditions imposed by the serious crime prevention order, it would clearly be in breach of the order, and the applicant authority would go back to the court to seek the winding-up order.