My Lords, this is another probing amendment. The powers to seize property under Section 47C are limited and exclude cash or exempt property. Exempt property is defined as, ""such tools, books, vehicles and other items of equipment as are necessary to the defendant for use personally in the defendant’s employment, business or vocation"."
Exempt property also includes items such as clothing, bedding, and other items to satisfy basic domestic needs. If the individual’s employment, business or vocation is a criminal activity, and that criminal activity is dependent on that equipment, is it exempt? I beg to move.
Policing and Crime Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Neville-Jones
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 20 October 2009.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Policing and Crime Bill.
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