Mr Richard Sharples: It would be wrong to do that and to give that undertaking. We had to treat each case on its merits. When there are special compassionate grounds one makes an exception, but the normal rule, applied by both governments, is that a woman is expected to go to the country in which her husband is domiciled. It is not normal for a married woman domiciled here to be able to bring her husband here to...
Mr Richard Sharples: I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment. It might be for the convenience of the House if at the same time we discuss Lords Amendments No. 8 and 9: In page 2, line 36, leave out "father's" and insert "parent's"; In page 2, line 38, leave out "father's" and insert "parent's".
Mr Richard Sharples: The opening words of Clause 2(2) makes special provision in regard to the patriality of persons who are born after their father's deaths. The effect of the subsection as introduced was to provide that in a case where subsection (1) requires a parent to have been a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies at the time of a person's birth, it is sufficient for the father to have been such a...
Mr Richard Sharples: I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment. This is an Amendment to Clause 2 (2)(b) which relates to births of persons on board a ship or aircraft. If the ship or aircraft is registered in the United Kingdom or owned by the United Kingdom Government birth in it counts as birth in the United Kingdom for the purpose of acquiring or transmitting the right of...
Mr Richard Sharples: With the leave of the House. I think I am right in saying that the agreement of the Islands was obtained for the extension of the right of patriality to a person who is born in the Islands. All the Amendment does is to extend that to a ship or aircraft belonging to one of the Islands, which is a much narrower point.
Mr Richard Sharples: I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment. This is a purely drafting Amendment.
Mr Richard Sharples: With the leave of the House, I can give an assurance to the hon. Gentleman that there is no fundamental reason at all. This is purely drafting. It was thought that the alteration made better reading.
Mr Richard Sharples: I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment. The Amendment empowers my right hon. Friend to meet the removal expenses of a person who has either become liable to deportation on conviction and recommendation by a court, or belongs to the family of such a person, and who is willing to leave the country without a deportation order being made. In other words,...
Mr Richard Sharples: I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment. This is a point involving Scottish law which was raised on Report by the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Mr. Ronald King Murray). The Amendment will meet the point that he raised. Clause 6(6) provides that a deportation order shall not be made on the recommendation of a court so long as an appeal...
Mr Richard Sharples: I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment. The reason for this Amendment is that there are certain kinds of oil rig which, even if they have their legs up, are not ships within the meaning of the Bill, although they are capable of being towed by a ship. The provisions of the Bill for the examination of persons arriving in the United Kingdom apply at...
Mr Richard Sharples: I do not for a moment pretend that hordes of immigrants are arriving on oil rigs, but it is possible for someone to arrive in this way. An oil rig may be stationary at sea. People come from abroad to work on such oil rigs, landing by helicopter, and it might well be that they would be towed by a tug into the United Kingdom. Without this provision, such persons would not be subject to...
Mr Richard Sharples: I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment. It might be for the convenience of the House if we consider at the same time Lords Amendment No. 29, in page 15, line 7, leave out if it appears and insert: by the adjudicator if he is satisfied". Subsection (4) provides that: An appeal against a refusal of leave to enter shall be dismissed if it appears that the...
Mr Richard Sharples: I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment. The Amendment requires the rules of procedure for immigration appeals to provide that any appellant should have the right to be legally represented. That is the existing situation and it is the Government's intention that that situation should continue. That is why the Amendment was accepted by the Government in...
Mr Richard Sharples: It is; that is the existing position.
Mr Richard Sharples: I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment. It might be convenient if we discussed at the same time Amendment No. 60, in page 37, line 38 at end insert: (4A) A person who has renounced citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies under this Act shall not be entitled to be registered as a citizen thereof under subsection (0) above, but may be so...
Mr Richard Sharples: With the leave of the House, may I say that these Amendments refer only to the very narrow point concerning people who have not been admitted to this country. In many cases, it is convenient that they should not be held in detention but should be allowed to stay in, say, a hotel convenient to the airport or port through which they came. This does not involve any question of people having to...
Mr Richard Sharples: I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment. The Amendment concerns a point raised by the hon. Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles (Mr. David Steel). An Amendment was accepted inserting the word "knowingly" in subsection (1)(a). Amendment 39 is consequential upon it.
Mr Richard Sharples: I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment. This is an Amendment to Clause 26(1)(a), which makes it an offence to fail to submit to examination by an immigration officer or medical inspector on arrival in this country or by an immigration officer on departure. The Amendment qualifies the offence with the words "without reasonable excuse". This was a matter...
Mr Richard Sharples: I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
Mr Richard Sharples: Amendment No. 44 paves the way for Amendment No. 66, which is the substantive Amendment affecting paragraph 17 of Schedule 2. Its purpose is to ensure that, where directions are given under paragraphs 8 to 14 of that Schedule, after refusal of entry or illegal entry, or under paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 which refers to deportation, for the removal of a person from the United Kingdom, the...