HL Deb 30 July 1958 vol 211 cc490-2

[The references are to Bill (124) as first printed for the House of Commons.]

Clause 3, page 4, line 15, leave out ("six") and insert ("three")

Clause 3, page 4, line 20, leave out ("and")

Clause 3, page 4 line 21, leave out ("or indefinitely")

Clause 14, page 9, line 17, at end insert— ("(3) In England and Wales, a local authority may institute proceedings for an offence under this section.")

Clause 18, page 10, line 43, leave out from ("infant") to ("the") in line 1 on page 11.

Clause 19, page 12, line at end insert ("as evidenced, in such cases as may be prescribed, by the certificate of a fully registered medical practitioner.")

Clause 22, page 13, line 21, after ("include") insert (", and be deemed always to have included,")

Clause 22, page 13,line 35, at end insert— ("(5) In this section, 'adoption order' includes,—

  1. (a) in subsection (2), an adoption order made under any enactment repealed by the principal Act;
  2. (b) in subsection (3), an order authorising an adoption made under the Adoption of Children Act (Northern Ireland) 1950, or any enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for the time being in force.")

Clause 26, page 17, line 8 at end insert ("subject to the modification that, where the application relates to an order in which the surname of the adopted person is not specified, the name which was his surname one year after the date of the order may be added in the said particulars instead of the adopter's (if different), notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) of section twenty-five of this Act.")

Clause 32, page 20, line 15, at end insert (", except that where the application is refused by the court or withdrawn the infant need not be returned to the local authority unless the local authority so require.")

Clause 32, page 20, line 36, at end insert (", unless twelve weeks have elapsed since the giving of the notice without the application 'being made or the application has been refused by the court or withdrawn.")

Clause 34, page 21, line 40, at end insert ("; and the court may order any infant in respect of whom the offence was committed to be removed to a place of safety until he can be restored to his parents or guardian or until other arrangements can be made for him.")

Clause 34, page 22, line 4, at end insert— ("(4) Section forty-one of the principal Act (which contains general provisions as to offences under Parts TI to IV of that Act) shall apply to offences under this section as if they were offences under Part IV of that Act.")

Clause 36, page 22, line 12, at end insert— (" (2) In relation to an adoption order made by a magistrates' court, the reference in subsection (1) of each of the following sections, that is to say, section twenty-five, section twenty-six and section twenty-seven of this Act, to the court by which an order has been made includes a reference to a court acting for the same petty sessions area.")

Clause 37, page 22, line 28, at end insert— (" (3) In England and Wales, a local authority may institute proceedings for an offence under this section.")

Clause 41, page 23, line 23, leave out ("January") and insert (" April").

First Schedule, page 27, line 13, at end insert— (" (3) The references in section forty-one of the Adoption Act, 1950 (which contains general provisions as to offences under Parts II to IV of that Act), to an offence under Part III of that Act shall be construed as referring to an offence under this paragraph.")

Second Schedule, page 29, line 33, column 2, at end, insert— ("In section eighteen, in subsection (5), the words from both in regard' to the end of the subsection shall be omitted. In section twenty, in subsection (6), the words from 'both in regard' to the end of the subsection shall be omitted. In section twenty-one in subsection (3), for the words the court which made the order' there shall be substituted the words 'by any court, the court', and after the words Register of Births', there shall be inserted the words' or the Adopted Children Register', and in subsection (7) for the words 'petty sessional division or place' there shall be substituted the words 'petty sessions area'.")

Second Schedule, page 29, line 43, column 2, after ("(5)",) insert ("for the word `fifty' there shall be substituted the words one hundred 'and").

Second Schedule, page 29, line 48, column 2, at end insert— ("In the Third Schedule, in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 1, for the words transfer of the care and possession of infants to persons resident abroad' there shall be substituted the words sending or taking of infants abroad'.")

Third Schedule, page 31, line 9, column 3, at end insert ("and in subsection (5) the words from 'both in regard' to the end of the subsection.

In section twenty, in subsection (6), the words from 'both in regard' to the end of the subsection.")

Third Schedule, page 31, line 29, column 3, leave out ("'place of safety'")

THE LORD CHANCELLOR

My Lords, in view of what the noble Lord, Lord Silkin, has said, and the fact that no other noble Lord has spoken, it might be convenient that I should take all the Amendments en bloc. I am entirely in the hands of your Lordships.

LORD SILKIN

My Lords, so far as my noble friends and I are concerned, that would be an acceptable course.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR

My Lords, I take it from the absence of any intervention that that course commends itself to noble Lords, as a whole. I therefore beg to move that all the Commons Amendments be agreed to.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.—(The Lord Chancellor.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.