Violent Crime Reduction Bill

moved Amendment No. 17:"Page 2, line 37, leave out ““relevant”” and insert ““other””" The noble Lord said: Government Amendments Nos. 17, 25, 52, 54 and 60 make some minor and technical amendments to the provisions on drinking banning orders by removing the concept of relevant persons. The concept of relevant persons refers to those people in a relevant authority’s area whom the authority is seeking to protect in applying for an order. While that definition holds for drinking banning orders made on application by a relevant authority it does not hold when a court considers making a drinking banning order on conviction. In such proceedings no relevant authority is involved. The matter was helpfully drawn to our attention by the Crown Prosecution Service and we are now amending the Bill to remove the term ““relevant persons””. That will remove an unintended fetter on the courts’ ability to make a drinking banning order on conviction. It is a technical set of amendments. I beg to move. On Question, amendment agreed to.