§ [The references arc to Bill No. (54).]
§ Clause 9, page 8, leave out Clause 9 and insert the following clause:
§ Misstatements in certificates, etc.
§ (". —(1) Any person who makes a wilful misstatement of any material fact in any medical or other certificate or in any statement of bodily or mental condition under this Act stall be guilty of a misdemeanour.
§ (2) A prosecution for an offence under this section shall not be instituted except by the direction of the Attorney-General or the Director of Public Prosecutions.")
§
Clause 10, page 8, line 37, at end insert:
("(d) Subsection (2) of Section nine of this Act shall not apply.")
§
Page 9, line 17, at end insert:
("(d) for any reference to the Attorney-General or to the Director of Public Prosecutions there shall be substituted a reference to the Attorney-General for Northern Ireland.")
LORD MAKLEYMy Lords, the Amendments which are in your Lordships' hands are Amendments inserted in another place. They are purely formal and drafting, and I beg to move that your Lordships agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.—(Lord Marley.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.