HC Deb 26 July 1967 vol 751 cc898-9

Lords Amendment: No. 139, in page 55, line 40, leave out subsection (1) and insert: (1) No person shall make a gift of any shot gun or ammunition for a shot gun to any person under the age of fifteen.

Mr. Taverne

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

Perhaps, Mr. Deputy Speaker, we might consider at the same time Lords Amendments Nos. 141, 144, 148, 149.

Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Sydney Irving)

If that is the wish of the House.

Mr. Tavern

Clause 70(1) as printed makes it an offence to make a gift of a shot gun to a person under 15 and also makes it an offence for that person to accept such a gift. There are similar offences already existing in relation to Part I firearms and air weapons, although there the age is 14 and not 15. The view was taken in another place that, while it should be an offence to give, it should not be an offence for the juvenile to accept the gift of a gun. We accept this view. The Amendments make the necessary changes in the Bill and also in the 1962 Act which relates to air weapons and ammunitions and a similar change in the 1937 Act in regard to Part I firearms and ammunition.

Question put and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords Amendments agreed to.