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Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill

Moved by

Lord Caine

60: Clause 18, page 16, line 35, at end insert “, and

(b) any other law that might or would prevent a prosecution of P for an offence from being begun or continued (for example, abuse of process—but see paragraph 3 of Schedule (No immunity in certain circumstances)).”

Member’s explanatory statement

This provides that the immunity requests panel can ignore any law that would prevent a prosecution, when the panel is deciding when P’s disclosed conduct would tend to expose P to criminal enforcement action in respect of an offence.

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Reference

831 c486 

Session

2022-23

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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