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Terrorism Bill

Amendments Nos. 90 and 91 stand in my name and those of several of my hon. Friends, as well as those of the hon. Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) and the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davis). They are probing amendments designed to give us a clearer understanding of the Minister’s intentions in clause 17. As I read it, it appears to create a universal jurisdiction in regard to these offences. In other words, if anyone anywhere commits a crime that falls into the necessary categories and is a crime in the United Kingdom, that crime will be prosecutable in a British court of law. If that is the case, those crimes would become part of a small subsection of crimes that are prosecutable on that basis. Examples include genocide, war crimes and I think that there is another one, but it has escaped my memory—