Wednesday, 17 July 1985
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Order for Second Reading read.
Read the Third time, and passed.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Football Association, and chief fire officers in Scotland, on the safety of football grounds in both...
Mr. Ron Brown: asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if, when he next meets the Scottish Trades Union Congress he will discuss the implications for Government policy on employment in...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if the report on the quinquennial review of the Teachers Superannuation Scheme (Scotland) has been received by him; and if he will give a date when it...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland when he last met the Scottish National Farmers Union to discuss the impact of cuts in the agricultural research and advisory services on farms in the...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the current situation within Scottish agriculture.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what response he has sent to the West Lothian district council evidence to the Cooper committee on Polkemmet, a copy of which has been sent to him by the...
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what further consideration he has given to imposing a trout protection order on the Tay system under the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1976.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps are being taken to attract new industries to Springburn in view of the British Rail Engineering Ltd., redundancy announcements.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will place in the Library a copy of his speech delivered at the Royal Highland Show on 17 June.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many designated places under section 5 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 have been established; whether any current applications are being...
Mr. Marshall: asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what further representations he has received about the operation of the Rating (Revaluation Rebates) (Scotland) Act 1985.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement about current economic prospects in Scotland.
asked the Solicitor-General for Scotland if he will give details of the instructions which his Department has given to procurators fiscal in connection with the prosecution of individuals charged...
asked the Solicitor-General for Scotland against how many people proceedings have been instituted for rape and related offences in the last three months.
asked the Solicitor-General for Scotland what are the most recent conveniently available statistics he has for prosecutions during the miners' dispute.
(by private notice) asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement about the dispute on teachers' pay following the adjournment of the talks in the early...
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement. I told the House on 20 June that if further investigations into the affairs of Johnson Matthey Bankers were to turn up any...
4. 11 pm
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In the course of the debate on the Welsh rate support grant last evening, my hon. Friend the Member for Ogmore (Mr. Powell) raised with Mr. Deputy Speaker the...
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As you are no doubt aware, authoritative information has been made public today, based on leaked documents, giving the numbers of gainers and losers under the...
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to create an offence of racial harassment; to place a duty on a landlord to seek eviction of a tenant who is convicted of such offence if it...
Mr. Harry Cohen accordingly presented a Bill to create an offence of racial harassment; to place a duty on a landlord to seek eviction of a tenant who is convicted of such offence if it is...
As amended (in the Standing Committee), considered.
'For section 23 of the Solicitors Act 1974 there shall be substituted—
'If leave for an application to the High Court for judicial review is refused, the court shall state its reasons.'.—[Sir B. Rhys Williams.]
`No person or body corporate shall engage in the conveyancing of any property if they have a financial interest (other than their fee for conveyancing) in that transaction or any related...
`For the purpose of preventing anti-competitive practices and monopoly situations or their development in the field of conveyancing services and services connected with such services by persons...
`1.—(1) There shall be a body to be known as the Solicitors Complaints Board.
1. The Board shall be a body corporate.
5. The Board shall have power to pay to the members of the Board or any of its committees such fees for attendance and such travelling, subsistence or other allowances as the Board may determine.
6.The Board shall have power to do anything which in its opinion is calculated to facilitate the proper discharge of its functions, including the borrowing of money.
7.—(1) The Board shall have power to appoint such officers and servants as it may determine.
8.—(1) The Board may establish a committee for any purpose (other than a purpose for which it is required to establish a committee by virtue of any provision of this Part) and may delegate...
9.—(1) The powers of the Board and of any of its committees may be exercised nothwithstanding any vacancy, and no proceedings of the Board or of any of its committee shall be invalidated by...
10.—(1) The Board shall keep proper accounts of all sums received or paid by it and proper records to those accounts.
`In paragraph (b) of section 7 of the Arbitration Act 1950 (party fails to appoint an arbitrator), the words after "appoint an arbitrator" to the end of the paragraph shall be replaced by the...
I beg to move, in page 10, line 9, at end insert— '(5) After that subsection there shall be inserted—(4) A local weights and measures authority may institute proceedings for an...
Amendments made: No. 5 in page 11, line 17, leave out `of that Act shall also' and insert ',or (as the case may be) section 23(1), of that Act shall'.
I beg to move amendment No. 9, in page 15, line 38, at end insert— '(4A) Where— (a) an application for a licence is made in accordance with section 13 by a person who, at the date of...
Amendment made: No. 13, in page 29, leave out lines 26 to 28.—[The Attorney-General.]
I beg to move amendment No. 17, in page 56, line 28, leave out 'and 55 to 64' and insert ', 55 to 61 and 63 and 64'. This is a technical amendment to the commencement provisions, correcting the...
Amendment made: No. 19, in page 60, line 26, at end insert—
Amendment made: No. 21, in page 75, line 41, leave out from 'relation' to end of line 8 on page 76 and insert 'to proceedings before the Discipline and Appeals Committee under this Part.
Amendments made: No. 22, in page 85, line 26, at end insert—
6A.—(1) Where the Discipline and Appeals Committee are satisfied that the recognition of a body corporate under section 31 was granted as a result of any error, or as a result of fraud on...
6B.—(1) Where, in the case of any body corporate, the Council— (a) refuses an application by that body for recognition under section 31; or(b) decides to grant recognition of that...
Amendment made: No. 27, in page 91, line 25, at end insert—
5A. Where a person has committed an offence under section 23 of the Solicitors Act 1974 before the commencement of section [Preparation of papers for probate etc. by unqualified persons] of this...
I beg to move, That the Rate Reduction (City of Edinburgh District) 1985–86 Report, which was laid before this House on 3rd July, be approved. I should like to start by setting the action...
As always, I listened with the greatest interest to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar), but his support for the Labour group on Edinburgh district council was the most lukewarm...
I beg to move, That the Revaluation Rate Rebates (Scotland) Order 1985, dated 9 July 1985, a copy of which was laid before this House on 10 July, be approved.
Motion made, and Question put forthwith pursuant to Standing Order No. 80(5) (Standing Committees on European Community documents).
That this House takes note of European Community Documents Nos. 6707/85, a proposal for a Council Directive concerning the examination of animals and fresh meat for the presence of residues, and...
That this House takes note of European Community Documents Nos. 9153/82 and 6544/83, draft Directive and Amendment on crude oil saving through the use of substitute fuel in petrol; and Nos....
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Peter Lloyd.]
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