Member

Amendments 19 and 20 seek to extend the period for which the PSFA must wait before it can act on a court order related to the destruction or disposal of property from six months to 12 months. Six months is a sufficient period to allow further applications to be made to the court once an order has been granted. Amendment 20 is consequential to Amendment 19, so there is no need to speak to that further. We are very clear that six months is a reasonable amount of time and that 12 months just means that we are storing property for longer than we would wish to, with associated costs.