HC Deb 28 June 1934 vol 291 cc1353-4

Lords Amendment: In page 7, line 29, after "imprisonment," insert "for six months."

5.42 p.m.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL

I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."

The House will remember that, when this Bill was being considered in Committee, a point was raised with regard to certain words in the Schedule which enabled the Order to set out what punishments could he inflicted for its breach, and, after some debate, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved a form of words which I think found general acceptance. By an oversight, however, the form of words actually moved did not include the maximum period of imprisonment in respect of a second offence. The maximum period of imprisonment for a first offence was three months, and it was intended to provide that the maximum period of imprisonment for a second offence should be six months. The Amendment which has been inserted in another place, and to which I now ask the House to agree, repairs that omission, and provides for a period of six months as the maximum period of imprisonment for a second offence.

Question put, and agreed to.