Clause 6

Emergency Workers (Protection) Bill

Public Bill Committees, 26 April 2006, 2:30 pm

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Penalties

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Alan Williams (Swansea West, Labour)

I beg to move amendment No. 24, in page 4, line 19, leave out from ‘Act' to end of line 22 and insert

‘is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.'.

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Joe Benton (Bootle, Labour)

With this it will be convenient to consider amendment No. 25.

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Alan Williams (Swansea West, Labour)

We have already discussed the penalties. I welcome the fact that the fine level is, at least, to remain at that which I envisaged originally and that the changes to imprisonment relate more to the assault side than to the impeding side.

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Amendment agreed to.

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Amendment made: No. 25, in page 4, line 23, leave out subsections (2) and (3).—[Mr. Alan Williams.]

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Clause 6, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.

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Clause 7 disagreed to.

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