Vernon Coaker (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Gedling, Labour)

I beg to move amendment No. 239, in schedule 11, page 115, line 27, at end insert—

‘ (1) Section 302A (powers for prosecutors to appear in proceedings) (as inserted by section (Powers for prosecutors to appear in cash recovery proceedings)(1) above) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a) after “constable”, in the first place where it appears, insert “or an accredited financial investigator”; and

(b) after “constable”, in the second place where it appears, insert “or (as the case may be) an accredited financial investigator”.

(3) After subsection (3) insert—

“(4) The references in subsection (1) to an accredited financial investigator do not include an accredited financial investigator who is an officer of Revenue and Customs but the references in subsection (2) to an officer of Revenue and Customs do include an accredited financial investigator who is an officer of Revenue and Customs.”’.

Joe Benton (Bootle, Labour)

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Government new clause 17—Powers for prosecutors to appear in cash recovery proceedings.

Government amendment No. 240.

Vernon Coaker (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Gedling, Labour)

These are relatively minor and technical amendments.