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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

As written, new Section 327A(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, under Clause 191 of the Bill, states that the responsible authority must, "““consider whether to disclose information … to a particular member of the public””." As written, new Section 327A(2) has this presumption in it. Even if that is altered in language, something along those lines will be there. I thought that I understood the Minister to say that there is no sanction for enforcing this, while under the old law mandamus a local authority could be compelled to carry out its duty. Is he saying that there is no way that any member of the public could enforce this provision and is there no criminal sanction? Is it an unenforceable ““must””?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
699 c1522 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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