Orders of the Day — Summary Jurisdiction (Separation and Maintenance) Bill. – in the House of Commons am ar 17 Gorffennaf 1925.
Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON:
I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
The first Amendment covers a point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Devizes (Mr. Hurd) and also by another hon. Member. They were not quite satisfied in regard to the question of venereal disease that Section 4 of the Act of 1895 covered the point that was meant to be covered in this Bill. We went into the point very carefully, and our opinion was that that Act did cover the point, but as the hon. Members concerned were not quite satisfied, we asked the Lord Chancellor in The other House to look into the matter again, and in order to make the question perfectly clear, an Amendment was drafted which I hope the House will now accept.
Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON:
I beg to move "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."
This Amendment is in order to bring this Bill into relation with the Guardianship of Infants Bill with which we have just dealt. The Amendment sets out exactly the period which we have already adopted in the former Bill.
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