HL Deb 04 April 1905 vol 144 cc285-6

Debate on Amendment moved after Third Reading resumed (according to order).

The said Amendment, by leave of the House, withdrawn.

LORD DAVEY

explained that he had put Amendments on the Paper with a view to meeting the objections taken on the previous occasion by the noble and learned Earl on the Woolsack. The first Amendment was to Clause 1, which dealt with frequenting "any street, public park, garden, or sea beach" for the purpose of betting. It proposed to omit the words "public park, garden, or sea beach." The second Amendment proposed to provide that the word "street" should not include "any vacant ground open to the public, common ground not used for the purpose of a racecourse or adjacent thereto, or any space under a railway arch," as stated in the Bill, and that the expression "public place" should include "any public park, garden, or sea beach, and any unenclosed ground to which the public for the time being have unrestricted access." The third Amendment referred to Clause 2, which provided that the Bill should not apply to a racecourse, and its object was to secure that the exemption should only apply to a racecourse for racing with horses.

Amendment moved— In Clause 1, page 1, line 5, after the word 'street' to insert the word 'or,' and to leave out from the word 'public' to the word 'on' in line 6 and insert the word 'place.'"—(Lord Davey.)

THE LORD CHANCELLOR (The Earl of HALSBURY)

So far as I am concerned I assent to all the Amendments standing in the name of my noble and learned friend.

*LORD JAMES OF HEREFORD

I should like to thank the Lord Chancellor for having met us in the matter. I hope that the arrangement is satisfactory from his point of view, it certainly is so from mine.

On Question, Amendment agreed to.

Amendment moved— In Clause 1, page 2, line 12, to leave out from the word 'not' to the end of the clause and to insert the words 'and the words "public place" shall include any public park, garden, or sea-beach, and any unenclosed ground to which the public for the time being have unrestricted access.'"—(Lord Davey.)

On Question, Amendment agreed to.

Amendment moved— In Clause 2, page 2, line 17, after the word 'racecourse' to insert the words 'for racing with horses.'"—(Lord Davey.)

On Question, Amendment agreed to.

Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.