Local Government (Religious etc. Observances) Bill

marshalled
list of Amendments
to be moved
in committee

[Amendments marked * are new or have been altered]

Clause 1

THE EARL OF CLANCARTY

LORD GAREL-JONES

BARONESS MEACHER

BARONESS FLATHER

1

Page 1, leave out lines 4 to 15

THE EARL OF CLANCARTY

LORD AVEBURY

LORD GAREL-JONES

BARONESS FLATHER

2

Page 1, line 5, at beginning insert “Subject to subsection (4),”

THE EARL OF CLANCARTY

BARONESS FLATHER

3

Page 1, leave out lines 7 and 8 and insert “silent prayers”

THE EARL OF CLANCARTY

LORD GAREL-JONES

LORD AVEBURY

BARONESS MEACHER

4

Page 1, line 8, at end insert—

“provided that the remainder of business starts at a specified time and that this time is at least 5 minutes after the conclusion of the prayers or other observance.”

THE EARL OF CLANCARTY

LORD AVEBURY

LORD GAREL-JONES

BARONESS MEACHER

5

Page 1, line 15, at end insert—

“(4)     Local authority meetings in England may only include time for
prayers or other observances, as set out in subsection (1), following
agreement by a two-thirds majority of the members present at a
meeting of the authority which has been called specifically for that
purpose.

(5)     A local authority may make an agreement under subsection (4) for
a period of up to one year.”

LORD AVEBURY

LORD GAREL-JONES

BARONESS FLATHER

6

Page 1, line 16, leave out from beginning to end of line 7 on page 2

THE EARL OF CLANCARTY

LORD GAREL-JONES

BARONESS FLATHER

7

Page 1, line 17, leave out “support or”

LORD AVEBURY

LORD GAREL-JONES

BARONESS FLATHER

8

Page 1, line 17, leave out “support or facilitate, or”

Clause 2

LORD AVEBURY

LORD GAREL-JONES

BARONESS FLATHER

9

Page 2, line 9, leave out “138B” and insert “138A”

10

Page 2, line 11, leave out from beginning to “” and insert “”

11

Page 2, line 13, leave out “and 138B”

12

Page 2, leave out lines 16 to 19

13

Page 2, leave out lines 23 to 28

14

Page 3, leave out lines 10 to 13

15

Page 3, leave out lines 16 to 21

16

Page 3, line 39, leave out from beginning to end of line 8 on page 4

17

Page 4, line 13, leave out from “Wales” to end of line 15

18

Page 4, line 17, leave out “138B,”

19

Page 4, line 20, leave out “Sections 138A and 138B” and insert “Section 138A”

Prepared 12th March 2015