Amendments made: 3, in clause 2, page 2, line 12, leave out “or sound-recording”.

This amendment and Amendments 4 to 9 are consequential on amendment 1, and mean that new section 40DB of the Prison Act 1952 no longer makes it an offence to upload to an internet service a sound-recording of the inside of a prison made from outside the prison.

Amendment 4, in clause 2, page 2, line 14, leave out “or sound-recording”.

See the explanatory statement for Amendment 3.

Amendment 5, in clause 2, page 2, line 15, leave out “or made”.

See the explanatory statement for Amendment 3.

Amendment 6, in clause 2, page 2, line 17, at end insert—

“(1A) A person is guilty of an offence if—

(a) without authorisation, the person uploads a sound-recording to an internet service, and

(b) the sound-recording—

(i) was made inside a prison, or

(ii) records a prison worker on prison land.

(1B) Subsection (1A) of section 40D (photograph or sound recording of a transmission from a prison) applies for the purposes of subsections (1)(b)(i) and (1A)(b)(i) of this section as it applies for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) of that section.”

See the explanatory statement for Amendment 3.

Amendment 7, in clause 2, page 2, line 22, after “(1)(b)(i)” insert “or (1A)(b)(i)”.

See the explanatory statement for Amendment 3.

Amendment 8, in clause 2, page 2, line 26, leave out “or sound-recording”.

See the explanatory statement for Amendment 3.

Amendment 9, in clause 2, page 2, line 27, after “(1)(b)(iii)” insert “or (1A)(b)(ii)”.

See the explanatory statement for Amendment 3.

Amendment 10, in clause 2, page 3, line 23, at end insert—

“(4) In section 40F(1) (offences under sections 40B to 40D: extension of Crown immunity) for ‘40D’ substitute ‘40DB’.”—

This amendment provides for persons who work at a prison, are not servants or agents of the Crown and have been designated by the Secretary of State to benefit from Crown immunity from the new offences under sections 40DA and 40DB of the Prison Act 1952.

Clause 2, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.