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Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc. Bill [HL]

I will be quick. Clause 28 provides for offences by company officers and uses a term that I have not seen before in legislation—that they ““connive”” with or in something. Connivance is a term one associates with PC Plod rather than with statute, and I wonder whether this is the first time it has been used in legislation. I understand what it means, and perhaps this is a rather frivolous amendment. If so, I apologise. However, it struck an odd note. More seriously, Amendment 81 would change the trigger for the offence in subsection (1)(b) from ““neglect”” on the part of a company officer to ““recklessness””, implying that the person knows the likely consequences of his action. A word or two in defence of ““neglect”” is what I am seeking, or, of course, agreement to the amendment. I beg to move.