Session 2014-15
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Local Government (Religious etc. Observances) Bill
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
Page 1, leave out lines 4 to 15
THE EARL OF CLANCARTY
LORD AVEBURY
LORD GAREL-JONES
BARONESS FLATHER
Page 1, line 5, at beginning insert “Subject to subsection (4),”
THE EARL OF CLANCARTY
BARONESS FLATHER
Page 1, leave out lines 7 and 8 and insert “silent prayers”
THE EARL OF CLANCARTY
LORD GAREL-JONES
LORD AVEBURY
BARONESS MEACHER
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
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
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
Page 1, line 17, leave out “support or”
LORD AVEBURY
LORD GAREL-JONES
BARONESS FLATHER
Page 1, line 17, leave out “support or facilitate, or”
Clause 2
LORD AVEBURY
LORD GAREL-JONES
BARONESS FLATHER
Page 2, line 9, leave out “138B” and insert “138A”
Page 2, line 11, leave out from beginning to “” and insert “”
Page 2, line 13, leave out “and 138B”
Page 2, leave out lines 16 to 19
Page 2, leave out lines 23 to 28
Page 3, leave out lines 10 to 13
Page 3, leave out lines 16 to 21
Page 3, line 39, leave out from beginning to end of line 8 on page 4
Page 4, line 13, leave out from “Wales” to end of line 15
Page 4, line 17, leave out “138B,”
Page 4, line 20, leave out “Sections 138A and 138B” and insert “Section 138A”