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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

moved Amendment No. 30: 30: Schedule 4, page 173, line 27, leave out ““(A1),”” The noble Lord said: My Lords, I also speak to government Amendments Nos. 49 to 51. These amendments tidy up the drafting of Clause 12 by removing duplication and an inconsistency. They make no changes to policy. Clause 12 currently substantively restricts the availability of the community order as a sentence for imprisonable offences. It does this by inserting new Section 150A into the Criminal Justice Act 2003. That remains unchanged. Consequential to new Section 150A are minor changes to Section 151 of the same Act. This section allows a court to impose a community order where a persistent offender has previously received three or more fines. Section 151 is not new—it has been in the 2003 Act from the start. These amendments tidy up the changes to Section 151 that are already in the Bill and make it operate consistently with the new restriction on the use of the community order. The amendments remove some duplicated wording in Section 151, as amended, and amend Section 151 so that it clearly states situations in which a court can give a community order to persistent offenders who have been previously fined. As I have said, they do not alter the policy introduced by Clause 12 or the policy set out in Section 151. The amendment to Schedule 4 is consequential upon these other changes. I beg to move. On Question, amendment agreed to.