HC Deb 07 March 1979 vol 963 c1286

Mr. George Reid accordingly presented a Bill to amend the law of Scotland relating to protection from family violence, by providing for the making of orders excluding a person from the family home; by increasing the power of the court to grant interdicts; by removing the requirement of corroboration in relation to exclusions and interdicts against family violence and breaches of such interdicts; by making breaches of such orders and interdicts a criminal offence; and for purposes connected therewith: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 23 March and to be printed. [Bill 103.]