§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."
§ MR. HEALYsaid, there were one or two matters in the Bill which required amendment in Committee. One of them was a piece of bad drafting, for the Bill spoke of a person "in custody elsewhere than in prison." He did not see 383 how a man could be in custody except in prison. Then, again, cases often came under his notice of convictions quashed by certiorari. Now the law in Ireland was that a man must lie in prison while the case was being argued; and he thought it would be a good thing if the Bill were to provide that if a case of certiorari arose the man should be held to bail pending the decision. He thought the provisions of the Bill were not sufficiently wide to carry that, and he therefore hoped they would be amended in the way he had described.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill read a second time, and committed for Monday next.