at Thursday, February 06, 2003 3:44 PM, Peter Fairbrother <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was seen to say: > David Howe wrote: > a) it's not law yet, and may never become law. It's an Act of > Parliament, but it's two-and-a-bit years old and still isn't in > force. No signs of that happening either, except a few platitudes > about "later". Indeed - and the more FaxYourMP can do to keep that ever coming into force the better :)
> b) Plod would have to prove you have the key, and refused to give it, > before you got convicted. Kinda hard to do. Not true - they have to prove you *had* the key at some point in the past. having lost the key isn't a defense > c) you already know this!!! probably - it was an oversimplification of a complex legal situation. the law *is* on the books, and as far as I can see, all that is stopping the first part of it coming into force is the desire of the HO to add a shopping list of new people to the list already defined in the act. I am assuming that the part we are discussing here is "held up in the queue" until the bits before it come into effect.
