HC Deb 23 November 1914 vol 68 cc924-5

In Section fourty-four of the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifteen, shall, as respects England and Wales and Scotland, be substituted for the first day of December, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as the date of the commencement of that Act:

Provided that His Majesty by Order in Council may, as respects any particular provisions of the said Act, fix some date or dates earlier than the first day of April, or in the case of Section ten earlier than the first day of September, nineteen hundred and fifteen, for the commencement thereof, and different dates may be so fixed for different provisions and for England and Wales and Scotland respectively.

Amendment made: Leave out the words, "His Majesty by Order in Council may, as respects any particular provisions of the said Act, fix some date or dates earlier than the first day of April, or in the case of Section ten earlier than the first day of September, nineteen hundred and fifteen, for the commencement thereof, and different dates may be so fixed for different provisions and for England and Wales and Scotland respectively," and insert instead thereof the words "the postponement effected by this Section shall not apply to the following Sections of that Act—that is to say, Sections one, eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-five, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-five, thirty-six and thirty-seven, or any of the provisions of Section forty-two by which that Act is modified in respect of those Sections in its application to Scotland, or any repeal which is consequential on any of those Sections, all of which provisions shall come into operation on the first day of December, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as if this Act had not been passed."—[Mr. McKenna.]

Clause, as amended, added to the Bill.

Clause 2 added to the Bill.

Bill reported; as amended, to be considered To-morrow. [Bill 16.]