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Amendment made: No. 15, in page 7, line 20, leave out
'his officers and his servants' and insert 'and his officers'.—[Mr. MacDermot]
§ Mr. MacDermotI beg to move Amendment No. 16, in page 7, line 29, to leave out
'or an offence of perjury'and to insert:'alleged to have been committed in respect of information obtained by the Commissioner or any of his officers by virtue of this Act or for an offence of perjury alleged to have been committed in the course of an investigation under this Act or for the purposes of an inquiry with a view to the taking of such proceedings'.This Amendment is to meet a point which was raised by the hon. and learned 1417 Member for Northwich (Sir J. Foster). Its purpose is to make it clear that the occasions which are referred to in the subsection of proceedings for perjury or proceedings under the Official Secrets Act being occasions when the Commissioner is entitled to disclose matters which he learns during the course of an investigation, should be limited to offences of perjury or proceedings under the Official Secrets Act which are taken in relation to the Commissioner's own activities and functions and those of his staff. In other words, we are limiting the words in the Bill which were criticised as being too wide.
§ Amendment agreed to.