§ Lords Amendment: In line 5, after "orders;"insert "to make provision".
§ Mr. RentonI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
I suggest that it might be convenient to take at the same time the other Amendment to the Title.
I should like to express my appreciation for the help which the House has given me in getting through six pages of rather complicated Lords Amendments in just under the hour. I am grateful for the help which the House has given.
These Amendments to the Title are consequential on the four new Clauses which we have added to the Bill, all of them Clauses coming from the Lords.
§ Mr. Anthony GreenwoodOf course, we on this side agree with the Lords in the Amendment. This seems an appropriate moment for me to say that this appears to us to be an infinitely better Bill than when it first saw the light of day. We have, I think, now obtained every major concession from the Government that we have tried to get in the various stages of the Bill and which it was practicable for the Government to give us. We only wish that they were equally open to persuasion on some of the more reprehensible Measures that they bring before the House.
§ Question put and agreed to.
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Further Lords Amendment agreed to: In line 8, after "orders;" insert:
to amend section seventy-four of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1952; to make provision for the review of committals to prison by magistrates' courts for failure to comply with maintenance orders; and to enable Orders in Council under section twelve of the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act, 1920, to be revoked or varied;