Offender Management Bill

moved Amendment No. 1: 1: Clause 3, page 3, line 31, leave out ““designate individuals”” and insert ““authorise individuals under section 10(2) to act”” The noble and learned Baroness said: My Lords, these amendments are technical in nature. They were identified as necessary by parliamentary counsel during his final proofreading of the Bill. We hope that they will be entirely uncontroversial. Amendment No. 1 simply brings the wording in Clause 3 into line with that used elsewhere in the Bill, so that we talk consistently about individuals being ““authorised”” rather than ““designated””. Amendments Nos. 4, 5 and 6 to Clause 10 and Amendment No. 13 to Schedule 3 clarify the definitions of providers of probation services and officers of providers of probation services, to enable consequential amendments to work properly. Amendments Nos. 8 and 9 apply to the offences related to prison security in Clauses 25 and 26. Their effect is simply to bring consistency to the way in which ““specified”” is dealt with in the various subsections. I beg to move. On Question, amendment agreed to. Clause 3 agreed to.