The House of Commons Weekly Bulletin:
"Wednesday 12th October 2nd DLSC
Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Designated Area) Order 2005 (S.I., 2005, No. 1537),
2.30pm, Room 9"
DLSC = Delegated Legislation Standing Committee
"The Committee debates the instrument for a maximum of 90 minutes and reports that it has considered it."
Parliament reconvenes on Monday 10th October.
Please write to your Members of Parliament now, to see if they, or their parliamentary colleagues can debate the disproportionate extent of the Designated Area, and the badly draughted Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 sections 132 to 138.
The morning and lunchtime of Wednesday 12th October would be an appropriate time to lobby your Members of Parliament in person, at the House of Commons, i.e. within the controversial Designated Area, which includes "any place to which at the material time the public or any section of the public has access, on payment or otherwise, as of right or by virtue of express or implied permission"
This obviously includes the public lobby areas and Committee Rooms of the Palace of Westminster.
You should remind Members of Parliament that it is intolerable for there to be any legal restrictions, such as the requirement to get written permission in advance from the Police, before members of the public can lobby their Members of Parliament, in person at the House of Commons, in the traditional and time honoured way.
An important matter to address is to find out when and by what means the Designated Area was drawn up. When did they have its area in mind?
If the Home Office had the plans for it before March, they could be accused of unreasonably withholding information from Parliament and the people while the law was being discussed. If they drew it up after the law was passed, how did they know the area they would want to designate (on whatever mysterious criteria they chose) would fit within the limits?
Someone should pose a question to the ministry to find out these details.