§ Mr. HurdI beg to move amendment No. 84, in page 26, leave out lines 14 and 15 and insert
`it shall be the duty of the custody officer, subject to subsection (2A) below, to order his immediate release from custody.(2A) A person who appears to the custody officer to have been unlawfully at large when he was arrested is not to be released under subsection (2) above.'.
§ Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Paul Dean)With this it will be convenient to discuss the following Government amendments Nos. 85, 87 to 94, 296, 107, 112, 113, 115, 116, 124, 126, 129 to 132, 174, 178, 213, 270 and 245.
§ Mr. HurdThese amendments fall into the two usual categories: some are technical and clarificatory, and others carry out undertakings given in Committee. We have recognised, for example, a point drawn to our attention by my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Griffiths). There would be problems for the time limits on detentions provided by the Bill if the arrested person was in hospital and incapable of being questioned. We have met that point in amendment No. 107.
We are also grateful to the community police consultative group for Lambeth for drawing our attention to a deficiency in clause 39, which might have appeared to permit an application for a warrant of further detention in the absence of the detained person. Those are the two principal ways in which we have met our undertakings.
§ Amendment agreed to.
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Amendments made: No. 85, in page 26, line 23, at end insert
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`and if it so appears, he shall be released on bail'.
No. 86, in page 26, line 24, leave out subsection (4). —[Mr. Hurd.]