Part of Orders of the Day — Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Bill – in the House of Commons at 8:30 pm on 20 January 1997.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
, Edinburgh West
8:30,
20 January 1997
These are minor technical and drafting amendments.
Amendment agreed to.
Amendment made: No. 92, in page 4, line 14, leave out 'this section' and insert
'section 2 of the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997'.—[Lord James Douglas-Hamilton.]
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