Clause 24
Serious Crime Bill [Lords]
12:30 pm
Vernon Coaker (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Gedling, Labour)
Perhaps it will be unnecessary for me to write to the hon. and learned Gentleman and helpful to the Committee if I read my statement into the record.
I fully appreciate the hon. and learned Gentleman’s intention in tabling the amendment. Like him, I have been very concerned to ensure that the Bill provides the appropriate rights of appeal. However, I hope that I can reassure the Committee that the rights are already provided for in other legislation and that the amendment is unnecessary.
Clause 24 provides a right of appeal for third parties. Without the clause, they would not have such a right. The appeal rights of the applicant authority and the subject of the order, as parties to the original proceedings, are already provided for in the Senior Courts Act 1981, or the Supreme Court Act 1981 as it is currently known. Therefore, I hope that the right hon. and learned Gentleman feels reassured enough to withdraw his amendment because its effect is already provided for.