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House of Commons

Notices of Amendments

given up to and including

Tuesday 25th January 2005

New Amendments handed in are marked thus *

Standing Committee F

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Drugs Bill

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Mr Mark Oaten

Mr Alistair Carmichael

9

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  11,  leave out ‘18’ and insert ‘16’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

28

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  11,  leave out ‘18’ and insert ‘criminal responsibility’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

30

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  11,  at end insert—

‘(c)	the offender intended to supply controlled drugs to a person under the age

of 16.’.

Mr Mark Oaten

Mr Alistair Carmichael

12

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  16,  after ‘aggravated’, insert ‘and must state the portion of a

sentence being imposed that relates to this aggravation’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

1

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  18,  after ‘school’, insert ‘youth club, skate park, arcade or

bowling alley’.

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Drugs Bill, continued

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

25

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  18,  leave out ‘at a relevant time’ and insert ‘at any time’.

Mr Mark Oaten

Mr Alistair Carmichael

17

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  18,  after ‘time’, insert ‘or involved the supply of controlled

drugs to a person under the age of 16.’.

Mr Mark Oaten

Mr Alistair Carmichael

10

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  21,  leave out ‘18’ and insert ‘16’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

26

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  1,  leave out subsection (5).

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

Mr Mark Oaten

Mr Alistair Carmichael

2

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  5,  leave out subsection (6).

Mr Mark Oaten

Mr Alistair Carmichael

11

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  9,  leave out ‘requests’ and insert ‘requires or causes’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

29

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  9,  leave out ‘requests’ and insert ‘intends to use or uses’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

3

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  12,  after ‘cash’, insert ‘, or items intended to be exchanged

for their monetary value,’.

Mr Mark Oaten

Mr Alistair Carmichael

14

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  12,  after ‘cash’, insert ‘or other consideration’.

Mr Mark Oaten

Mr Alistair Carmichael

15

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  13,  after first ‘cash’, insert ‘or other consideration’.

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Drugs Bill, continued

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

4

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  13,  after first ‘cash’, insert ‘, or items intended to be

exchanged for their monetary value,’.

Mr Mark Oaten

Mr Alistair Carmichael

16

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  13,  after second ‘cash’, insert ‘or other consideration’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

5

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  13,  after second ‘cash’, insert ‘, or items intended to be

exchanged for their monetary value,’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

6

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  18,  after ‘cash’, insert ‘, or items intended to be exchanged

for their monetary value,’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

7

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  25,  at end insert—

‘(g)	any goods which are intended to be exchanged in the place of cash.’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

27

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  37,  leave out from ‘above)’ to end of subsection and insert

‘will apply upon Royal Assent’.

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Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

31

Clause  2,  page  3,  line  3,  leave out subsection (4B).

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Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

32

Clause  3,  page  3,  line  31,  leave out ‘the appropriate’.

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Drugs Bill, continued

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

33

Clause  3,  page  3,  line  34,  after ‘inform’, insert ‘in writing’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

34

Clause  3,  page  4,  line  12,  leave out from ‘draw’ to end of line and insert ‘any

appropriate inferences from the refusal’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

35

Clause  3,  page  4,  line  22,  at end insert—

‘(d)	a prison officer’.

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Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

36

Clause  5,  page  5,  line  22,  leave out from ‘officer’ to ‘has’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

37

Clause  5,  page  5,  line  25,  leave out ‘a Class A’ and insert ‘or can be reasonably

suspected to have swallowed any controlled drug’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

40

Clause  5,  page  5,  line  25,  at end insert ‘within 3 hours of the authorisation by that

officer’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

38

Clause  5,  page  5,  line  26,  leave out paragraph (b).

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

39

Clause  5,  page  5,  line  29,  leave out ‘(or both)’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

41

Clause  5,  page  5,  line  43,  at end insert—

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Drugs Bill, continued

‘(d)	a purpose built facility for carrying out searches authorised under this

legislation’.

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John Mann

18

Clause  7,  page  8,  line  34,  after ‘A’, insert ‘or class B’.

John Mann

19

Clause  7,  page  9,  line  3,  after ‘A’, insert ‘or class B’.

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

8

Clause  7,  page  9,  line  9,  leave out paragraph (a).

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John Mann

20

Clause  9,  page  11,  line  14,  after ‘person’, insert ‘, who may be his GP,’.

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John Mann

21

Clause  10,  page  12,  line  17,  after ‘a’, insert ‘GP or other’.

John Mann

22

Clause  10,  page  12,  line  26,  after ‘assessor’, insert ‘and his GP’.

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John Mann

23

Clause  21,  page  21,  line  8,  leave out ‘A’ and insert ‘C’.

John Mann

24

Clause  21,  page  21,  line  9,  leave out ‘A’ and insert ‘C’.

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Drugs Bill, continued

New Clauses

Inclusion of khat as a Class A drug

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

NC1

To move the following Clause:—

‘In Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (c. 38) (Class A drugs),

in paragraph 1, insert at the appropriate place—

“Khat which contains cathinone or cathine.”.’.

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Treatment

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Crispin Blunt

NC2

To move the following Clause:—

‘Any person convicted of a drugs offence must submit to a drugs treatment

programme.’.

Order of the House [Tuesday 18th January 2005]

That the following provisions shall apply to the Drugs Bill:

Committal

1.	The Bill shall be committed to a Standing Committee.

Proceedings in Standing Committee

2.	Proceedings in the Standing Committee shall (so far as not previously

concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Thursday 3rd February 2005.

3.	The Standing Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on

which it meets.

Consideration and Third Reading

4.	Proceedings on consideration shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

brought to a conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the

day on which those proceedings 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.

Programming Committee

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

proceedings on consideration and Third Reading.

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Drugs Bill, continued

Programming of proceedings

7.	Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on

consideration of Lords Amendments or on any further messages from the

Lords) may be programmed.

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Revised 26 January 2005