Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

AMENDMENTS
TO BE MOVED
ON REPORT
[Supplementary to the Third Marshalled List]

Before Clause 60

BARONESS LINKLATER OF BUTTERSTONE

LORD BEECHAM

LORD RAMSBOTHAM

151A*

Insert the following new Clause—

“Awareness of sentencing options

(1) The Lord Chancellor shall, by regulation, promote arrangements to ensure that each Probation Trust provides adequate information about community sentencing provision to all magistrates in the area for which it has responsibility.

(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may provide—

(a) guidelines for liaison between magistrates and Probation Trusts;

(b) a reimbursement scheme for magistrates expenses under paragraph (a); and

(c) such other provision as the Lord Chancellor thinks appropriate.”

Schedule 9

LORD MCNALLY

152ZB*

Page 199, line 19, leave out paragraph 20

Clause 75

LORD MCNALLY

152BZA*

Page 58, line 24, leave out subsection (10)

Schedule 11

LORD PONSONBY OF SHULBREDE

152DA*

Page 205, leave out lines 1 to 5

152JA*

Page 206, line 47, leave out paragraph 8

152JB*

Page 208, line 3, leave out paragraph 14

152JC*

Page 208, line 10, leave out paragraph 15

152JD*

Page 209, line 10, leave out paragraph 25

Prepared 12th March 2012