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Terrorism Bill

moved Amendment No. 5:"Page 1, line 11, leave out ““on his behalf””" The noble Lord said: My Lords, this is a very brief probing amendment. It arises because Clause 1(2) says:"““A person commits an offence if—""““(a) he publishes a statement to which this statement applies or causes another to publish such a statement on his behalf””." I am simply asking: what is the point of the words, ““on his behalf””? Might it not, for example, prevent the prosecution—which I would have thought would be fully justified—of an intermediate who gets someone else to publish the statement, not on his own behalf, but on behalf of a third party who has created the original statement? That is all I have to say on this rather limited issue. I beg to move.