I beg to move amendment No. 40, in

clause 14, page 10, line 3, after 'bail)' insert—

'(a) after ''Where'' there is inserted ''(a)'', and

(b)'

With this we may discuss Government amendments Nos. 41 to 43.

Before I discuss the amendments, I want to echo your concern, Mr. Illsley, about the circumstances described by my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, North (Mr. Allen). I am sure that the Committee's best wishes go to the officer and his family.

Amendments Nos. 40 and 41 are simple drafting amendments, which are designed to make the provision amended by clause 14(1) easier to understand.

Amendment No. 42 provides that the High Court is to have no power—I think that the Committee accepted at the end of our previous deliberations that the change proposed in the clause was generally welcome—to entertain bail applications in cases where the Crown court makes a bail decision under the new powers in clauses 75 and 76, which relate to the retrial

of serious offences. That situation would not be covered by the abolition of the High Court's bail jurisdiction under clause 14(3), which necessarily refers only to existing powers.

Amendment No. 43 is a drafting amendment, which is primarily designed to take account of the reference to the revocation of bail in clauses 75 and 76.

Amendment agreed to.

Amendments made: No. 41, in

clause 14, page 10, line 4, after 'and' insert '(b)'.

No. 42, in

clause 14, page 10, line 19, at end insert—

'(4A) The High Court is to have no power to entertain an application in relation to bail where the Crown Court—

(a) has granted or withheld bail, or

(b) has varied the conditions of bail,

under section 75 or 76 of this Act.'

No. 43, in

clause 14, page 10, line 29, at end insert—

'(7) Any reference in this section to the withholding of bail is to be read as including a reference to the revocation of bail.'—[Hilary Benn.]

Clause 14, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.