Part of Proceeds of Crime Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:30 am on 27 November 2001.
The Minister has satisfied me about amendment No. 85; indeed, as I read subsection (3)(a) to him, I began to satisfy myself. I therefore have no difficulty on that score.
I return to the generality and the need for the clause. If I understand clause 6 correctly, the court may consider benefits that may have accrued from offences taken into consideration under that clause. The Minister nods. I am therefore puzzled about why it was felt necessary to restate that in clause 20 if clause 6 is supposed to apply. I would simply have said ``section 6 has effect''. I am puzzled about why it was felt necessary to restate the ability of the court to take TICs into consideration when coming to a subsequent reappraisal on the application of the director or prosecutor in the six-year period.