§ 9.15 p.m.
§ Mr. MillanI beg to move Amendment No. 99, in page 58, to leave out line 20.
Mr. Deputy SpeakerI suggest that it would be convenient for the House to discuss, at the same time, the following five Government Amendments, Nos. 100, 101, 102, 103 and 104.
§ Mr. MillanThat would be convenient, Mr. Deputy Speaker, since these are all basically drafting Amendments. They relate to the application of the Bill's provision outside Scotland. They are technical and some of them pick up changes which we have made in earlier parts of the Bill.
§ Mr. W. H. K. Baker (Banff)I understood that the House of Commons was not entitled to legislate for the Channel Islands, among other places, outside the United Kingdom. Subsection (3) states:
The following provisions of this Act shall extend to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man…1557 Have any consultations taken place, for example with Guernsey, in connection with the Bill?
§ Mr. MillanI assure the hon. Gentleman that all appropriate consultations have been carried out. These provisions deal with absconding children and their recovery from the Channel Islands. I would have thought that the House would not want children who abscond to feel that if they get to the Channel Islands they are beyond the reach of the British House of Commons.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Further Amendments made: No. 100, in line 21, after '58', insert 'sections 86 and 87'.
§ No. 101, in page 58, leave out lines 25 to 27.
§ No. 102, in page 58, leave out lines 30 and 31.
§ No. 103, in page 58, line 32, after 'V', insert 'section 96'.
§ No. 104, in line 35, leave out from 'Islands' to 'sections' in line 36 and insert 'that is to say '.—[Mr. Millan.]