Wednesday, 13 July 1977
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
As amended, considered; to be read the Third time.
Mr. Bruce Millan presented a Bill to confirm a Provisional Order under Section 7 of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936, relating to British Railways; and the same was read the...
Address for Return,
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the present situation in the Middle East and the prospects for peace.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he next proposes to meet the Chinese Foreign Minister.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he is satisfied that the technical studies being made of possible procedures for verifying observance of a chemical warfare...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether, at the forthcoming talks with the Argentine about the future of the Falkland Islands, he will make it clear that under...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will seek to raise in the United Nations Commission on Human Rights the brutalities being committed in Mozambique and...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will seek to pay an official visit to Ankara.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will make a statement on the progress of Government policy with regard to a settlement in Rhodesia.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on Belize, in the light of the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference.
(1) Representatives of the Governments of Guatemala and of the United Kingdom met in Washington on 6/7 July in a third round of negotiations at Ministerial level to discuss the question of...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many Ministers of the present Government of Chile have visited Great Britain since the fall of the Allende Government.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a further statement on the statement by the EEC countries on Middle East affairs.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he next intends to meet EEC Foreign Ministers.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will make a statement about his latest talks with the other Foreign Ministers of the EEC regarding the Belgrade Review...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he was satisfied with the progress made towards greater European co-operation during the United Kingdom's tenure of the...
On a different point of order, Mr. Speaker. You are probably aware that the Government have today published an important White Paper about the future of the water industry. In that White Paper...
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Mr. Peter Viggers accordingly presented a Bill to provide information about inflation: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 22nd July and to be...
As amended (in the Standing Committee, considered.
'For the Table in paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 (maximum periods of imprisonment in default of payment of fines etc.) there shall be substituted the following...
'After section 34 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 there shall be inserted—
'(1) In the proviso to section 1(3) of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 (which excludes from the scope of that Act anything done in the course of a cinematograph exhibition taking place...
'46A.—(1) Where a court passes on an adult a sentence of imprisonment for a term of not less than six months and not more than two years, it may order that, after he has served part of the...
'Where any person has been arrested, other than under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 1976, and is being held in custody in a police station or other premises, he shall be entitled to have...
(1) It shall be lawful for a person or persons to stand upon or walk along the highway and in the course of doing so to hold notices to offer written materials to passers by and to address...
'(1) In section 1(3)(c) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 at end add— "(c1) a residential care order; or(c2) a secure order; or".
'Schedule (Misuse of Drugs Act 1971: Alteration of penalties and other amendments) to this Act shall have effect for the purposes of altering the penalties available on conviction on indictment...
'An accused charged with an offence triable either way shall be served with a notice in the prescribed form either when he is charged or when a summons is served upon him.
'(1) Without prejudice to the Protection from Eviction Act 1977, section 1, it shall be an offence to deprive any person who continues to reside in any premises after the termination of a lawful...
(1) Where, in proceedings under Part II of this Act, the prosecution must prove that the defendant was a trespasser and— (a) the defendant claims that he was not a trespasser; and(b) the...
In the third column of the Second Schedule to the Sexual Offiences Act 1956, in relation to solicitation by a man (section thirty-two), for "years" there shall be substituted "three months", and...
We then find in the last paragraph on page 86 that there shall be inserted a new schedule 7A to the 1975 Act which shall be identical with Schedule 1 to the 1975 Act except that certain items are...
'(1) If the offence charged by the information is one of those mentioned in the first column of Schedule (Offence triable either way for which the value involved is relevant to the maximum...
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Amendments made: No. 3, in page 2, line 43, leave out from indictment' to end of line 46 and insert— (a) in a case falling within subsection (2) or (3) below, to imprisonment for a term...
Amendments made: No. 15, in page 4, line 9 at beginning insert
I beg to move Amendment No. 19, in page 4, line 36, leave out subsection (3) and insert— '(3) The offences of conspiring to corrupt public morals, conspiracy to outrage public decency,...
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I beg to move Amendment No. 35, in page 7, line 6. after 'trespasser', insert 'after having entered as such'.
I beg to move Amendment No. 52, in page 7, line 32, leave out from 'above' to end of line 35 and insert: '"offensive weapon" means any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to the...
I beg to move Amendment No. 61, in page 8, line 6, at end insert: 'if he acts in a violent way or a manner likely to provoke a breach of the peace'. The aim of Clause 9, which is concerned with...
Amendment made: No. 73, in page 9, line 31, after 'constable', insert 'in uniform'.— [Mr. Arthur Davidson.]
Amendment made: No. 76, in page 9, line 42 after 'constable', insert 'in uniform'.— [Mr. Arthur Davidson.]
Amendments made: No. 79, in page 10, line 1, after 'Act', insert: '(a)'.
I beg to move Amendment No. 84, in page 12, line 22, leave out '(4) Subsection (1) above is' and insert: (3A) The following offences under the Night Poaching Act 1828 shall be triable only...
Amendment made: No. 86, in page 22, line 28, at end insert: '(2A) A person who (by virtue of section 15 above) is summarily convicted of an offence under section 2 (assaults by persons committing...
I beg to move Amendment No. 88, in page 24, line 40, at end insert: '(9A) In section 67(6) of the Medicines Act 1968, for "£400" (which gives the maximum fine on summary conviction which can...
Amendment made: No. 89, in page 25, line 21, at end insert: '(3) In paragraph 1(1)(d) of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972, for the words£5 a day" (which give the maximum daily...
I beg to move Amendment No. 91, in page 29, line 1, leave out 'paragraph (a) or (b) or paragraphs (a) and (b)' and insert 'all or any one or more of paragraphs (a) to (c)'.
I beg to move Amendment No. 93, in page 30, line 40, leave out from 'purpose' to end of line 43 and insert 'the persons authorised to effect such citation shall include, in England and Wales and...
I beg to move Amendment No. 94, in page 36, line 3, at end insert: '(4) A person who maliciously threatens otherwise than by letter or writing to kill or murder any person is guilty of an...
Amendments made: No. 95, in page 42, line 29, after 'sum', insert 'or sums'.
Amendments made: No. 101, in page 43, leave out line 39 and insert— 'section 15(2), (3) and (3A); section 30(2A);'.
Amendments made: No. 120, in page 45, line 23, leave out 'Part III of this Act so far as it relates'
Probation orders
Amendment made: No. 132, in page in page 53, leave out lines 6 and 7.—[Mr. John.] LICENSING ACT 1872 (c. 94) Offences under the first paragraph of section 12 (being found drunk in a...
Amendment made: No. 133, in page 55, leave out lines 11 and 12.—[Mr. John.]
Amendment made: No. 144, in page 76, line 4, leave out from 1975 'to end of line 5.— [Mr. John.]
Amendment made: No. 145, in page 78, line 18, leave out paragraph 2 and insert— '2. Where an order under section 41(1) above is made in the course of proceedings which, for the purposes of...
Amendment made: No. 146, in page 80, line 5. leave out from 'proceedings' to end of line 12 and insert— '(b) the coroner shall, after the termination of the inquest, furnish the registrar...
Amendments made: No. 147, in page 83, line 24, leave out 'other than by a local authority'.
Amendments made: No. 153, in page 88, line 34, at end insert:
1. In section 2 (assaults by persons committing offences under the Act), for the words from "whether et be" onwards substitute "be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not...
In section 149(9) (procedure where person prosecuted before an election court subsequently attends or is brought before a magistrates' court) — (a) in paragraph (b), for "hear" substitute...
In section 29(4) (correction of error in register resulting from error in information given by a coroner's certificate), for the words preceding "the coroner, if satisfied", substitute— (4)...
In section 50 (prohibition of certain payments), after subsection (3) insert:— (3A) This section does not apply to (a) any payment made by an adoption agency to a person who has applied or...
1. In section 179 (restrictions on prosecutions for certain offences), in subsection (1) (offences to which section applies), after paragraph (a) insert— (aa) any offence under subsection...
1. In section 28(8), for `subsection (6) 'substitute subsection 7.'
Amendments made: No. 165, in page 106, line 11, at end insert:
Amendments made: No. 191, in page 112, line 13, at end insert section 30(2A) above, in'.
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Frank R. White.]
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