§ Order for Consideration, as amended, read.
§ Bill as, amended, considered.
§ Amendment made.
§ Clause 15 (Saving clause as to liability).
§ MR. WARTON, in moving, as an Amendment, to omit the second paragraph of the clause, said, he did so with the object of securing that the Act should not exempt any person from any proceeding, by indictment or otherwise, for an offence which was punishable at Common Law, or under any Act, other than that Act, so that no person should be punished "or tried" twice for the same offence.
§ Amendment proposed, in page 8, line 33, to leave out all the words after the word "offence."—(Mr. Warton.)
§ Question proposed, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill."
§ MR. FAWCETTsaid, he could not accept the Amendment.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Clause agreed to.
§ Clause 16 (Substitution of 32 & 33 Vict. c. 18, s. 1, in Telegraph Act, 1878, for 31 & 32 Vict. c. 119, s. 33).
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MR. WARTON moved the omission of the following section:—
And whereas the said section thirty-three (of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1868) was repealed, and another section in lieu thereof enacted by the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1869, and it is expedient to substitute a reference to the last-mentioned section for the reference to the repealed section.
§ Amendment proposed, in page 9, line 1, to leave out all the words from "And" to the word "section," in line 5, inclusive.—(Mr. Warton.)
§ Question proposed, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill."
§ SIR HENRY HOLLANDsaid, he hoped the Amendment would be accepted.
§ MR. COURTNEYsaid, the Proviso gave the power not to the Post Office to make a choice, but to the Court to interfere. It was for that purpose the discretion of the Court was retained, leaving the Post Office to take remedies outside the Act.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Clause agreed to.
§ Bill read the third time, and passed, with Amendments.