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House of Commons

Notices of Amendments

given up to and including

Monday 7 October 2019

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Amendments which will comply with the required notice period at their next appearance

Public Bill Committee

Domestic Abuse Bill

Note

This document includes all amendments tabled to date and includes any

withdrawn amendments at the end. The amendments have been arranged in the

order in which they relate to the Bill.

Ms Harriet Harman

Mark Garnier

Ms Karen Buck

Rosie Duffield

Diana Johnson

Lisa Nandy

Rachel Reeves

Rosie Cooper

Tonia Antoniazzi

Janet Daby

Jo Stevens

Anna Turley

Liz McInnes

Jack Dromey

Rushanara Ali

Kate Green

Jo Platt

Danielle Rowley

Liz Kendall

Tracy Brabin

Emma Hardy

Ruth Jones

Jess Phillips

Anneliese Dodds

Thelma Walker

Yvette Cooper

Stella Creasy

Preet Kaur Gill

NC1

To move the following Clause—

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“No defence for consent

(1)    

If, in the course of any behaviour which constitutes domestic abuse within the

meaning of this Act, a person (“A”) wounds or assaults another person (“B”)

causing actual bodily harm, more serious injury or death, it is not a defence to a

prosecution that B consented to the infliction of injury.

(2)    

Subsection (1) applies whether or not the actual bodily harm, more serious injury

or death occurred in the course of a sadomasochistic encounter.”

Ms Harriet Harman

Mark Garnier

Ms Karen Buck

Rosie Duffield

Diana Johnson

Lisa Nandy

Rachel Reeves

Rosie Cooper

Tonia Antoniazzi

Janet Daby

Jo Stevens

Anna Turley

Liz McInnes

Jack Dromey

Rushanara Ali

Kate Green

Jo Platt

Danielle Rowley

Liz Kendall

Tracy Brabin

Emma Hardy

Ruth Jones

Jess Phillips

Anneliese Dodds

Thelma Walker

Yvette Cooper

Stella Creasy

Preet Kaur Gill

NC2

To move the following Clause—

“Consent of Director of Public Prosecutions

(1)    

In any homicide case in which all or any of the injuries involved in the death,

whether or not they are the proximate cause of it, were inflicted in the course of

domestic abuse, the Crown Prosecution Service may not, in respect of the death—

(a)    

charge a person with manslaughter or any other offence less than the

charge of murder, or

(b)    

accept a plea of guilty to manslaughter or any other lesser offence

without the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

(2)    

Before deciding whether or not to give consent for the purposes of subsection (1),

the Director of Public Prosecutions must consult the immediate family of the

deceased.”

Order of the House [2 October 2019]

That the following provisions shall apply to the Domestic Abuse Bill:

Committal

1.    

The Bill shall be committed to a Public Bill Committee.

Proceedings in Public Bill Committee

2.    

Proceedings in the Public Bill Committee shall (so far as not previously

concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Thursday 21 November 2019.

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3.    

The Public Bill Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on

which it meets.

Proceedings on Consideration and up to and including Third Reading

4.    

Proceedings on Consideration and any proceedings in legislative grand

committee shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a

conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the day on which

proceedings on Consideration are commenced.

5.    

Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.

6.    

Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to

proceedings on Consideration and up to and including Third Reading.

Other proceedings

7.    

Any other proceedings on the Bill may be programmed.