HL Deb 27 October 1976 vol 376 c545

[No. 36.]

Schedule 2, page 19, line 7, leave out paragraph 16 and insert—

'16. In section 26 of the Act of 1952 (remand for medical examination), for subsection (3) there shall be substituted the following— (3) Where on an adjournment under subsection (1) above the accused is remanded on bail, the court shall impose conditions under paragraph (d) of section 3(6) of the Bail Act 1976 and the requirements imposed as conditions under that paragraph shall be or shall include requirements that the accused—

  1. (a) undergo medical examination by a duly qualified medical practitioner or, where the enquiry is into his mental condition and the court so directs, two such practitioners; and
  2. (b) for that purpose attend such an institution or place, or on such practitioner as the court directs and, where the enquiry is into his mental condition, comply with any other directions which may be given to him for that purpose by any person specified by the court or by a person of any class so specified".'

Lord HARRIS of GREENWICH

My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 36. Paragraph 16 of Schedule 2 makes the Amendments which are necessary, in consequence of the abolition of personal recognisances, to subsection (3) of Section 26 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Lord Harris of Greenwich.)