Schedule 2
Serious Crime Bill [Lords]
Public Bill Committees, 3 July 2007, 5:30 pm
Vernon Coaker (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Gedling, Labour)
Either the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions or the director of the Serious Fraud Office must make the specific decision to delegate. It will not happen automatically, as the right hon. and learned Gentleman implied. It will be a positive decision.
Schedule 2 sets out the functions of the applicant authorities in relation to part 1 of the Bill. The amendments all relate to the powers of the directors of the four applicant authorities to delegate the exercise of their functions in relation to serious crime prevention orders to members of their respective organisations. Those powers have been included because we want the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions and the director of the Serious Fraud Office to be required to make a decision to delegate to a member of their staff rather than the delegation happening automatically.