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Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]

Clause 11—““Designation of customs revenue officials””—states: "““The Director of Border Revenue may designate … any other official … by whom general customs functions are exercisable, as a customs revenue official””." That seems to mean that a customs officer can also be a revenue officer or can be both, one or the other. Earlier we had the designation that a general customs official, who comes from the customs, can be a revenue official. So we have established that two are going into one, and the immigration function makes it three into one. Somebody needs to clear this up because either I am going to extremely confuse the Committee, or I am extremely confused, or the legislation is extremely confused. I would hate it to be the latter. We need to be extremely clear what we are talking about because, on the point that I have just raised about the designated customs official, the revenue official will not be allowed to have any say in the information coming down under Clause 14.