Clause 70 - Voyeurism: interpretation

Part of Sexual Offences Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee am 4:15 pm ar 18 Medi 2003.

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Photo of Paul Goggins Paul Goggins Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office 4:15, 18 Medi 2003

The Government's view is simply that the amendment would make the definition too wide. We want to remove possible areas of doubt. I have given the hon. Gentleman a couple of examples of where there could be doubt—although my examples might have been a bit extreme. There may be an area of confusion, and we do not want that to be the case. We do not want to describe someone's private home or those very confined spaces with which we are familiar: we want to extend the definition slightly, but we do not want to make it so broad that there would become considerable doubt in relation to it.