Protection of Freedoms Bill – Public Reading Stage BETA

Part 2: Regulation of surveillance
- REGULATION OF CCTV AND OTHER SURVEILLANCE CAMERA TECHNOLOGY
  - Code of practice
    - 29. Code of practice for surveillance camera systems[11]
  - Procedural requirements
  - Enforcement and Commissioner
  - Interpretation
    - 36. Interpretation: Chapter 1[0]
- SAFEGUARDS FOR CERTAIN SURVEILLANCE UNDER RIPA
  - 37. Judicial approval for obtaining or disclosing communications data[1]
  - 38. Judicial approval for directed surveillance and covert human intelligence sources[7]

Part 3: Protection of Property from Disproportionate Enforcement Action
- POWERS OF ENTRY
  - Repealing, adding safeguards or rewriting powers of entry
  - Repealing, adding safeguards or rewriting powers of entry
- VEHICLES LEFT ON LAND
  - Offence of immobilising etc. vehicles
    - 54. Offence of immobilising etc. vehicles[29]
  - Alternative remedies in relation to vehicles left on land
    - 55. Extension of powers to remove vehicles from land[3]
    - 56. Recovery of unpaid parking charges[105]

Part 4: Counter-terrorism Powers
- Pre-charge detention of terrorist suspects
  - 57. Permanent reduction of maximum detention period to 14 days[17]
- Stop and search powers: general
- Stop and search powers: Northern Ireland
  - 62. Stop and search powers in relation to Northern Ireland[0]

Part 5: Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups, Criminal Records etc.
- SAFEGUARDING OF VULNERABLE GROUPS
  - Restrictions on scope of regulation
  - Abolition of other areas of regulation
    - 67. Abolition of controlled activity[1]
    - 68. Abolition of monitoring[2]
  - Main amendments relating to new arrangements
  - Other amendments
- CRIMINAL RECORDS
  - Safeguards in relation to certificates
  - Up-dating and content of certificates
    - 80. Up-dating certificates[2]
    - 81. Criminal conviction certificates: conditional cautions[4]
- DISREGARDING CERTAIN CONVICTIONS FOR BUGGERY ETC.
  - General
  - Effect of disregard
  - Appeals and other supplementary provision

Part 6: Freedom of Information and Data Protection
- Publication of certain datasets
  - 92. Release and publication of datasets held by public authorities[8]
- Other amendments relating to freedom of information
  - 93. Meaning of "publicly-owned company"[29]
  - 94. Extension of certain provisions to Northern Ireland bodies[0]
- The Information Commissioner

Part 7: Miscellaneous and General
- Miscellaneous repeals of enactments
  - 99. Repeal of provisions for conducting certain fraud cases without jury[12]
  - 100. Removal of restrictions on times for marriage or civil partnership[8]
- General

Schedules

On Friday 11th February 2011, the Coalition Government published the Protection of Freedoms Bill. This Bill brings together a raft of measures to restore hard-won British liberties that have been lost in recent years. Some of the measures came from the 14,000 ideas left on the Your Freedom website.

The Government is committed to continuing this public engagement with the content of the Protection of Freedoms Bill. This website gives you the opportunity to comment on each clause contained in the Bill. Your comments will get collated at the end of this public consultation and fed through directly to the Parliamentarians who will carry the Bill through the House of Commons (go to the Parliament website to learn about the passage of a bill). These comments will assist and challenge MPs, aiding their scrutiny and debate on the details of the Bill. This is a pilot for the 'public reading stage' that the Government wants to introduce to give the public an increased say in all bills

To help your understanding of the Protection of Freedoms Bill, download and read these Explanatory Notes.

You can find the individual clauses of the Bill (there are 107 in total) by using the navigation on the left-hand side of this page. Here's how the Bill is broken down:

7 Parts.
Each part is further broken down into chapters.
Most chapters are then organised into sub-sections.
These sub-sections contain the individual clauses.
Click on any of the 107 clauses in the left-hand navigation and the text will appear here. Leave your comments at the bottom of the page. You can comment on as many or as few of the clauses as you like.

Alternatively you can download the entire Protection of Freedoms Bill as a PDF document and post your comments into:

Civil Liberties and Identity Policy Unit
Home Office
Fry Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

Please remember to include the Clause number your comments refer to.