Clause 337 - Further provisions

Part of Proceeds of Crime Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:15 pm on 29 January 2002.

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Photo of Vera Baird Vera Baird Labour, Redcar 12:15, 29 January 2002

I had not applied my mind, I confess, to the mechanisms for correcting what I perceived to be the danger, but I am content if I have satisfactorily set out that danger, and if the Minister will consider it. This is not an oppositional point: it is being raised in order to prevent him from inadvertently going beyond his stated purpose.

A person is obliged to provide material. Even if it contains only the name and address, the very existence of something called ''material'', particularly when produced from a particular place, might be important evidentially, and be compellable under the clause. That is not what the Minister wants to get his hands on.