I beg to move amendment No. 263, in page 92, line 19, leave out paragraph (b).

With this it will be convenient to take the following: Government amendment No. 264.

Clause stand part.

These are technical amendments. Amendment No. 263 deletes the reference in subsection (3)(b) to section 14 of the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990, as the Bill repeals section 14.

Amendment No. 264 deletes, in effect, subsection (4)(a), and subsection (4)(b), since the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 is being repealed, and replaced by the new provisions on money laundering in the Bill. The new insertion is a consequential drafting replacement for subsection (4)(c).

I am not challenging the Minister's explanation, but I am not sure whether I understood him correctly. Perhaps I did not catch what he was saying. I understand that under amendment No. 264, the Government are removing the reference to the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 that will be repealed when the Bill is enacted. However, I did not understand his reference to amendment 263, which would leave out subsection (3)(b). Is he saying that the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 will be repealed by different legislation?

Amendment No. 263 deletes the reference in subsection (3)(b) to section 14 of the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990, because the Bill repeals that section.

I am grateful to the Minister. Only section 14 of that Act will be repealed by the Bill.

Amendment agreed to.

Amendment made: No. 264, in page 92, line 23, leave out subsection (4) and insert—

'(4) An offence of conspiring, inciting or attempting to commit an offence falling within subsections (1) to (3) is a drug trafficking offence.'.—[Mr. Foulkes.]

Clause 154, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.

Clause 155 ordered to stand part of the Bill.