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Mr. Michael Jopling, supported by Dr. John Cunningham, Mr. David Howell, Sir David Steel, Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman and Mrs. Chris Smith, presented a Bill to make new provision, in connection with the Antarctic Treaty signed at Washington on 1 December 1959; to make provision consequential on the Protocol on Environmental Protection to that Treaty done at Madrid on 4 October 1991; to make provision consequential on the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources drawn up at Canberra on 20 May 1980; to provide for the taking of criminal proceedings against, and the punishment of, British citizens and others in respect of certain acts and omissions occurring in that part of Antarctica that lies between 150 degrees West longitude and 90 degrees West longitude; and for connected purposes: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 25 February, and to be printed. [Bill 14.]