Ivana Bacik (Independent)

I welcome this amendment. In its briefing paper, the free legal advice centres pointed out that the use of "may" in the Bill as it stands seemed inadvertently to give a judge the discretion to do neither of the two things proposed in section 6(3), which clearly would have been a flaw in the legislation. I emphasise, in a constructive spirit, that this amendment is welcome. It is noteworthy that the free legal advice centres spotted this apparent anomaly in the original drafting.