§ Lords Amendment: No. 43, in page 25, line 37, after "if" insert "without reasonable excuse".
§ 7.30 p.m.
§ Mr. SharplesI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
This is an Amendment to Clause 26(1)(a), which makes it an offence to fail to submit to examination by an immigration officer or medical inspector on arrival in this country or by an immigration officer on departure. The Amendment qualifies the offence with the words "without reasonable excuse". This was a matter on which we had some discussion in Committee, and I think it meets the point of several hon. Gentlemen opposite.
§ Question put and agreed to.