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Departmental Legislation

Volume 503: debated on Wednesday 6 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what criminal offences have been (a) created and (b) abolished by secondary legislation sponsored by his Department since 1 May 2008. (307804)

Since 1 May 2008, the Ministry of Defence has created two new criminal offences through secondary legislation. They are the offence of absconding by persons on bail, and the offence of agreeing to indemnify sureties, contained in articles 10 and 14 of each of SI2009/991—The Armed Forces (Conditional Release from Custody) Order 2009, and SI2009/992—The Court Martial Appeal Court (Bail) Order 2009.

No offences were abolished during this period.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what criminal offences have been (a) abolished and (b) created by primary legislation sponsored by his Department since 1 May 2008. (307945)

Since 1 May 2008, the Ministry of Defence has not sponsored any primary legislation, and so has neither abolished nor created any criminal offences by Act of Parliament in this period.