Amendments proposed to the Northern Ireland (offences) Bill - continued House of Commons

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Trial in the crown court (No. 3)

   

Mr Laurence Robertson
Mr Henry Bellingham
Mr Ben Wallace
Mr Tobias Ellwood
Mr Jeremy Hunt

NC18

To move the following Clause:—

    '(1)   A person who holds a certificate of eligibility shall be tried for a certified offence in the Crown Court.

    (2)   There is a legal obligation on a defendant to appear before the Court.

    (3)   Failure by the defendant to appear before the Court shall constitute a criminal offence.

    (4)   The Court may impose such trial conditions on the defendant as it deems necessary.'.


Duty of Secretary of State to specify certain organisations

   

Mark Durkan
Dr Alasdair McDonnell

NC19

To move the following Clause:—

    'The Secretary of State shall specify, for the purposes of this Act, any organisation which he believes—

(a) has not established or is not maintaining a complete and unequivocal ceasefire;

(b) has not completed decommissioning to the satisfaction of the Commission referred to in section 7(1) of the Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning Act 1997; or

(c) has not ended its involvement in—

(i) attacks on the security forces, murders, sectarian attacks, riots, or other criminal offences (including organised crime);

(ii) training, targeting, intelligence gathering, acquisition or development of arms or weapons or other preparations for terrorist campaigns; or

(iii) punishment beatings or attacks or exiling,

to the satisfaction of the Monitoring Commission referred to in section 1(1) of the Northern Ireland (Monitoring Commission etc.) Act 2003.'.


   

Lady Hermon

228

Title, leave out from beginning to 'before' in line 2 and insert 'To provide an amnesty for those who have committed certain offences'.


ORDER OF THE HOUSE [23rd NOVEMBER 2005]

That the following provisions shall apply to the Northern Ireland (Offences) 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 15th December 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.

    6.   Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to proceedings on consideration and Third Reading.

Other Proceedings

    7.   Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on consideration of Lords Amendments or on any further message from the Lords) may be programmed.


 
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