Tuesday, 31 March 1987
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Read the Third time, and passed.
Amendments agreed to.
asked the Paymaster General if he has any plans to review the control and vetting procedures over applications for enterprise allowance and the subsequent use of funds granted under this scheme;...
asked the Paymaster General what information he has about the effect on regional tourism of television programmes depicting the English countryside, history and way of life.
asked the Paymaster General if he will make a statement on the number of places available on the community programme.
asked the Paymaster General how many people in inner London have been unemployed for over a year.
asked the Paymaster General what information he has on the amount of income that has been generated by tourism in the London Visitor and Convention Bureau area in each year since 1978.
asked the Paymaster General what recent initiatives he has taken to promote employment in the inner cities.
asked the Paymaster General what effect he expects the Budget measures to have on employment in Cumbria and the northern region.
asked the Paymaster General what response he has had from local authorities to the job training scheme.
asked the Paymaster General what proposals he has to monitor the quality of the training element in the Government's present job creation measures.
asked the Paymaster General whether he will estimate the number of projects that will receive aid from his Department in this financial year; and if he will estimate how much additional private...
asked the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Tuesday 31 March.
With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on the Turks and Caicos Islands. Last July I informed the House of the decision to amend the constitution, and to suspend...
Mr. George Gardiner, supported by Mr. Michael Colvin and Mr. John Cartwright presented a Bill to amend the definition of 'sale by retail' in section 201 of the Licensing Act 1964; and for...
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to give the police power of entry where a case of cruelty against an animal is suspected; to give the courts the power to ban people...
Mr. David Sumberg accordingly presented a Bill to give the police power of entry where a case of cruelty against an animal is suspected; to give the courts the power to ban people convicted of...
As amended, (in the Standing Committee), considered.
The words "or section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987" shall be inserted— (a)—in section 440 of the Companies Act 1985, after the words "that Act";(b)—in section 8(1) of the...
'.—(1) The following section shall be inserted after section 128 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980— Remands in custody for more than eight days.
(1) The following subsections shall be substituted for section 36(1) and (2) of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (suspension of compensation orders pending appeal)— (1) A person shall...
"The following section shall be inserted after section 77 of the Magistrates' Court Act 1980— Review of postponement of issue of warrant of commitment.77A— (1) If on an application by...
(1) The following subsection shall be substituted for section 1(4) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982— (4) Where a person under 21 years of age is convicted or found guilty of an offence, the...
'(1) Any person who shall— (a) unlawfully assault or beat any other person;(b) make use of provoking language or behaviour tending to a breach of the peace;Or(c) commit an act of criminal...
'(1) The powers of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office under section 2 of this Act shall be exercisable in any case in which it appears to him that there is good reason to do so for the...
'(1) In any proceedings a video recorded interview with a witness under the age of 14 (other than the accused) shall be admissible as evidence of any fact of which direct oral evidence by him...
'The following shall be substituted for section 12(1)(a) of the Juries Act 1974 (as amended by the Criminal Law Act 1977)— (a) That person shall have the right' to challenge not more than...
Motion made, and Question put,That, at this day's sitting, the Criminal Justice Bill may be proceeded with, though opposed, until any hour.— [Mr. Lightbown.]
'In the case of a claim under section 78(1)(a) compensation shall be payable for loss or damage to clothing or personal adjuncts of the claimant.—[Mr. Kaufman.]
'(1) Subsection (2) of section 4 of the Bail Act 1976 shall be amended by inserting after the word "offence", in the first place where it occurs, the words "other than murder or...
`The provision relating to the powers of the courts to suspend either in whole or in part a sentence of imprisonment as set out in the Powers of the Criminal Courts Act 1973 (as amended) and in...
'(1) Where a person has been convicted of an offence on indictment the prosecution may appeal to the court of appeal in any case where the sentence is manifestly inadequate.
'The following sections shall be inserted after section 24 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979—
'(1) If any bank or financial institution, or any other body suspects that any proceeds of drug trafficking or gold bullion smuggling are or have been under its control or in passage through its...
Mr. Hogg: I beg to move amendment No. I, in: page 2, line 8, at end insert 'for England and Wales and Northern Ireland'.
Amendments made: No. 12A, in page 2, line 45, at end insert ',but only for the purposes of an investigation under section 1 above,'.
Amendments made: No. 20, in page 4, line 42 leave out 'and'.
Amendments made: No. 37, in page 7, line 8, al beginning insert 'If the conditions specified in subsection (4A) below are satisfied,'.
Amendments made: No. 39, in page 7, line 43 at beginning insert 'Subject to subsection (3A) below,'.
Amendment made: No. 42, in page 10, line 16, at end insert— '(10A) Subject to rules of court made under section 53(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 (power by rules to distribute business of...
Amendment made: No. 43, in page 10, line 29, at beginning insert 'Unless the judge, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, gives leave,'.
Amendments made: No. 46, in page 10, line 43, after 'broadcast', insert 'or include a cable programme'.
Amendments made: No. 56, in page 12, line 41, leave out from 'court' to second `to' in line 42.
Amendments made: No. 98, in page 13, line 7, after `statement', insert 'which is admissible in criminal proceedings by virtue of section 13 or 14 above'.
Amendments made: No. 103, in page 14, line 38, [Clause 19]. at end insert—
Amendment No. 104, in page 15, line 23, at end insert—'(3A) A statement made on oath by a witness outside the United Kingdom and given in evidence through a live vieo link by virture of...
Amendments made: No. 58, in page 18, line 17, after 'of', insert 'such'.
Amendments made: No. 62, in page 19, line 21, at end insert— '(A) Subject to rules of court made under section 53(l) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal...
Amendments made: No. 154, in page 23, leave out line 11 and insert 'In subsection (4)'.
Amendments made:
Amendments made: No. 64, in page 32, line 46, leave out subsection (5).—[Mr. Douglas Hogg.]
Amendments made: No. 127, in page 50, line 48, after 'constituting' insert '(i)'.
Amendments made: No. 66, in page 53, line 49, at end insert— '(4) Where an injury which is a criminal injury by virtue of section 77(2)(a) above is sustained by a person who, when the...
Amendments made: No. 139, in page 54, line 6, leave out 'twenty-one' and insert 'twenty-eight'.—[Mr. Mellor.]
Amendments made: No. 67, in page 54, line 30, leave out subsection (3).—[Mr. Mellor.]
Amendments made: No. 142, in page 55, line 8, after 'him', insert `or receives any such payment after the making of the award'.—[Mr. Mellor.]
Amendments made: No. 159, in page 55, line 29, leave out '(a)'.
Amendments made: No. 68, in page 56, line 7, at end insert child" means a person under the age of 18 years;'.
Amendments made: No. 115, in page 59, line 40, at end insert— '(5) An Order in Council under this section which does not provide that a person may only be returned to the foreign state...
Amendments made: No. 116, in page 60, line 27, leave out `any offence' and insert 'an offence other than an offence excluded by subsection (4A) below, which is'.
I beg to move amendment No. 69, in page 62, line 12, leave out 'the foreign state' and insert '(a) the United States of America or (b) any state which is a party to the European Convention on...
Amendments made: No. 119, in page 67, line 20, at end insert— '(aa) any offence disclosed by the facts on which his return to the United Kingdom is granted. or'.—[Mr. Mellor.]
Amendments made: No. 106, in page 69, line 6, after 'or";', insert— '(aa) with the substitution in subsection (3B), for the words "Crown Court Rules"— (i) in relation to...
Amendments made: No. 70, in page 71, line 3, at end insert '"child" means a person under the age of 14;'.
Amendments made: No. 74, in page 71, line 16, leave out from 'registrar' to 'that' in line 17.—[Mr. Mellor.]
Amendments made: No. 75, in page 71, line 29, leave out first 'subsection' and insert 'subsections'.
Amendments made: No. 78, in page 73, line 23, leave out 'section 30 or 31 above' and insert 'any provision of this Act to which this section applies'.
Amendments made: No. 80, in page 73, line 45, at end insert— '(1A) An order under subsection (1) above may make such transitional provision as appears to the Secretary of State to be...
Amendments made: No. 81, in page 75, leave out line 21 and insert 'section 1 (including Schedule 1); and sections 2 and 3;'.
Amendments made: No. 83, in page 77, line 24, at end insert— '(2) In this paragraph references to the Director of Public Prosecutions include references to the Director of Public...
Amendments made: No. 91, in page 93, line 9, at end insert 'in respect of interest or'.
Amendments made: No. 120, in page 104, line 28, leave out 'and'.
Amendments made: No. 109, in page 111, line 22, at end insert— '18A. In section 30(1) of that Act (suspension of restitution orders pending appeal), the words "made on a conviction on...
Amendments made: No. 113, in page 122, line 24, at end insert— 'In section 30, the words "made on a conviction on indictment".'.
Amendments made: No. 95, in line 9, after 'cases' insert `the alteration of names of petty sessions areas.'.—[Mr. Garel-Jones.]
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Garel-Jones]
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