. • Clauses 11 and 12 introduce a new broader offence of encouraging or assisting serious self-harm, replacing and expanding the communications 5 offence in the Online Safety Act 2023 to cover all means of encouraging or assisting. • Clauses 13 and Schedule 2 introduce new offences to criminalise taking or recording an intimate photograph or film without consent, and installing equipment to enable the taking or recording of intimate photographs or films with the intention of committing a taking offence. • Clause 14 provides for a corporate body or partnership to be held criminally liable where a senior manager commits any offence while acting within the actual or apparent scope of their authority, replacing provisions in the 6 which were confined Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 to specified economic crimes. • Clauses 15 to 17 expand police powers to test persons on arrest or after charge (for persons aged 14 and over) for the presence of specified Class A drugs and refer them into drug treatment, to also permit drug testing for specified Class B and Class C drugs. • Clause 18 provides police with a new power to seize bladed articles where they are lawfully on private premises and have reasonable grounds to suspect the article will be used in connection with unlawful violence. 2 SIM (subscriber identity module) farms are electronic devices that are capable of using five or more SIM cards simultaneously or interchangeably and which allow the user to send Short Messaging Service (“SMS”) texts or phone calls in large numbers over the telecommunications network. 3 Criminal Justice Act 1988 (legislation.gov.uk) 4 Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959 (legislation.gov.uk) 5 Online Safety Act 2023 (legislation.gov.uk) 6 Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (legislation.gov.uk) 2 • Clause 19 provides police with a new power to enter and search premises (private or public) without a warrant where they have reasonable grounds to believe there are articles on those premises which have been stolen. • Clause 20 and Schedule 3 provide investigative agencies with a power to apply to the court for an order that a third-party entity involved in the provision of internet protocol (IP) addresses and internet domain names should prevent access to an IP address or domain name. • Clause 21 enables the Secretary of State to make regulations about access to driver licence records by the police and other law enforcement agencies. • Clause 22 gives courts the power to compel offenders to attend their sentencing hearing and to punish them as if it were criminal contempt of court if they do not.