Sentencing Bill - Committee (3rd Day) (Continued) – in the House of Lords at 9:30 pm on 3 December 2025.
Lord Timpson:
Moved by Lord Timpson
123: Clause 34, page 63, line 13, at end insert—“(d) in paragraph 13(1)(a) of Schedule 23 (power to amend maximum number of hours of unpaid work), for “paragraph 2(1)” substitute “paragraph 2(1A)”.”Member's explanatory statementThis Amendment updates a cross reference and is consequential on the amendment made by clause 34(2) (limits on the number of hours in an unpaid work requirement in a community order or suspended sentence order).
124: Clause 34, page 63, line 30, at end insert—“(ba) in paragraph 6, for “paragraph 3(5)” substitute “paragraph 3(5A)”;”Member's explanatory statementThis amendment updates a cross reference and is consequential on the amendment made by clause 34(5)(b)(ii) (limits on the number of hours in an unpaid work requirement in a supervision default order).
Amendments 123 and 124 agreed.
Clause 34, as amended, agreed.
Clause 35: Unpaid work requirement: publication of name and photograph of offender
As a bill passes through Parliament, MPs and peers may suggest amendments - or changes - which they believe will improve the quality of the legislation.
Many hundreds of amendments are proposed by members to major bills as they pass through committee stage, report stage and third reading in both Houses of Parliament.
In the end only a handful of amendments will be incorporated into any bill.
The Speaker - or the chairman in the case of standing committees - has the power to select which amendments should be debated.
A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
