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Clause 9 - Causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity

Sexual Offences Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 11:15 am on 11th September 2003.

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Photo of Paul Goggins Paul Goggins Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office 11:15 am, 11th September 2003

I beg to move amendment No. 43, in

clause 9, page 4, line 2, leave out '(A)'.

Photo of Mr Win Griffiths Mr Win Griffiths Labour, Bridgend

With this we may take Government amendments Nos. 93, 94, 95 and 96.

Photo of Paul Goggins Paul Goggins Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office

At long last we have arrived at a stage in our deliberations where we can adopt a slightly more relaxed mode. Hon. Members will have studied the amendments, which are a testimony to the assiduousness of officials and Ministers who spotted that they were necessary. They remove the definition of the person committing the offence as person (A), given that there is no such reference in the clause thereafter.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 9, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.