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Criminal Law (Amendment) (Protection of Property) Bill

My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. We know that the Bill is about defending property. I will bear in mind your constraints earlier, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and not stray down the highways and byways of other Acts and measures that the House has passed, although those may be the only guidance. It will be interesting to know, if I may say in parenthesis, whether that terminology has ever been interpreted in the courts or whether it simply appears in the statute. If that is so, it will not provide us with any more guidance than we have to start with.